Ibert

American  

[ee-ber] / iˈbɛr /

noun

1. Jacques François Antoine 1890–1962, French composer.

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Ibert British  

/ ibɛr /

noun

1. Jacques ( François Antoine ) (ʒak). 1890–1962, French composer; his works include the humorous orchestral Divertissement (1930)

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Example Sentences

There’s something heartening about audiences in shorts and T-shirts leaping to their feet in a concert hall to cheer well-turned showpieces by Ravel, Barber and Jacques Ibert.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

The eminent French composer Jacques Ibert contributed a vibrant score to “Macbeth,” but it lacks a specific relationship to the images; indeed, it appears that Ibert wrote without having seen the footage.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

The group plunged into the core of the repertory, such as it was: mainly mid-20th-century works by French composers like Pierre Lantier, Jacques Ibert and Alfred Desenclos.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2010

Circus is a simple, romantic ballet, set to some suitable music by France's Jacques Ibert, laid in a village square of placardized baroque, and dressed in costumes that suggest the saltimbanques of Picasso.

From Time Magazine Archive

A musical impressionist like Debussy, Paul Dukas and Jacques Ibert, Ravel worked with combinations of tone as impressionist painters did with blurred combinations of color, got nebulous and exotic effects from his orchestra.

From Time Magazine Archive