Jacques Ibert

Ibert, Jacques (1890–1962), French composer of piano pieces, orchestral works, symphonic poems, and operas. Among his well-known works are a cantata, Le Poète et la Fée (1919), a ballet based on Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol (1922), the orchestral suites Escales (1922) and Divertissement (1930), and the light opera for radio Barbe-bleue (1943).