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GEORGES JACOBI
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MAURICE JACOBI
Marche Antique, from Ballet 'Cupid ' (1886)
Valse, from Ballet ' The Swans ' (1884)
Minuet from Ballet ' Enchant-Pas Seul ment' (1887)
Daybreak from Ballet Tempta-Andantetion ' (1891)
Pavane, from Ballet 'Don Quixote' (1893)
Waltz, from Ballet 'Up the River' (1892)
Suite :
(a) Introduction, Pizzicato ..............
(b) Leaving Church and Peasants' Dance ' Naida '
(c) Prayer ........... (1887) (d) Dance of Lovers ... (e) Trinka (Russian
Dance) ............
Apotheosis (1893)
Gavotte, ' Zerlina,' from Ballet
'Don Juan ' (1892)
Ballabile-Galop, from Ballet 'Don
Juan' (1885)
Grand March, from Ballet
'Antiope ' (1888)
GEORGES JACOBI , born m 1840, and educated in Paris, began his musical career as a violinist. At the age of twenty-one he was awarded the first prize for violin playing at the Paris Conservatoire - a distinction which a number of the world's greatest violinists have won in turn. For some years after that he was associated with Offenbach, and conducted several of the joyous comic operas which had an unrivalled popularity in their own day. In 1871 he came to England, and for the next thirty years was Musical Director of the Alhambra in London, producing several of the Offenbach pieces there, and composing music for the imposing number of 108 ballots, a feat which is no doubt a record in its own way. Our older listeners will remember how popular a feature of these ballets Jacobi's music was, but besides that tremendous activity, he composed three comic operas, a number of smaller stage pieces, and some purely instrumental music which includes string quartets and a concerto for violin.
Jacobi was Professor at the Royal College of Music, twice President of the Association of Conductors in England, and was decorated both by the French Government and by the King of Spain. As listeners can bear for themselves in this programme, conducted by his son, he had an apparently endless gift of bright, vivacious melody.