He returned to France in 1955.
Noted for his lightness of touch and sensitivity to melody and harmony, Ibert was also a versatile and prolific composer of operas, ballets and
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Ibert, who studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he won the Prix de Rome, was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1937.
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The Flute Concerto, written in 1934, is a useful addition to solo repertoire for an instrument whose possibilities Ibert understood well, as he did the saxophone in his concertino for that instrument, composed in the following year. Ibert’s orchestral music includes suites and extracts from his theatre music, among which the scores written for A Midsummer Night's Dream and for the Orson Welles film of Macbeth. His Divertissement for chamber orchestra was derived from incidental music for Un chapeau de paille d' Italie (An Italian Straw Hat). The most popular of Ibert's works for smaller groups must be the Entracte for flute or violin, with harpsichord or guitar, followed by the Interludes for flute, violin and harp, from Lifar's Le burlador, and Histoires, taken from his own piano work of that name. |