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.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica