Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile (āmēl` zhäk-dälkrōz`), 1865–1950, Swiss educator and composer, b. Vienna, studied at the Geneva Conservatory, at the Paris Conservatory with Léo Delibes, and in Vienna with Anton Bruckner. From 1892 to 1909 he taught at the Geneva Conservatory, where he developed his system of eurythmics eurythmics or eurhythmics (both: y
..... Click the link for more information. as an aid to his own teaching. After successful demonstrations of his method he established (1910–14) the Jaques-Dalcroze School at Hellerau, near Dresden. In 1915 the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze was opened at Geneva. Jaques-Dalcroze also composed music and wrote several books, including an autobiography (1942).

Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile

(born July 6, 1865, Vienna, Austria—died July 1, 1950, Geneva, Switz.) Swiss music educator and composer. He studied composition with Anton Bruckner, Gabriel Fauré, and Léo Delibes, and in 1892 he became professor of harmony at the Geneva Conservatory. In the early 20th century he experimented with new methods of music education, which evolved into eurythmics, a system in which bodily movements are used to represent musical rhythms. In 1914, having left the conservatory, he founded the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva to teach and promulgate his new method.