born July 6, 1865, Vienna, Austria
died July 1, 1950, Geneva, Switz.
Swiss music educator and composer.
He studied composition with 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 {{link=eurythmics">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.