Maxime Jacob

Maxime Jacob alias Dom Clément Jacob is a Compositeur French born the January 13rd 1906 with Bordeaux and died in the Abbaye of In-Calcat with Dourgne (Tarn) the February 26th 1977.

Biography

It is during the hearing of the Protée of Darius Milhaud by the Concerts Column that it decides to meet the author to show him his tests. Then, he works with Charles Koechlin and André Gedalge. He meets Erik Satie thanks to Milhaud. Its Opening carried out on October 25th 1923, watch a musician having an original temperament. He writes the Incidental music Want you dance with me of Marcel Achard which gains a sharp success; the same applies to Mathusalem .

It composes a Opera-puffs out, By the Size of Alfred Jarry. He writes, also, of the Chamber music and of the parts of Piano for Clément Doucet, Belgian Pianiste celebrates (1894-1950), of the melodies on poems of Jean Cocteau, of Tristan Derème, Rene Chalupt. It belongs to the school of Arcueil with Henri Sauguet, Henri Pawl-Pleyel and Roger Désormière what makes say to Paul Landormy that this school has rendered great service with our music charged with so much of accumulated gravities. The extreme youth of these musicians helped them “to be unaware of”. They tried to remain children, and they succeeded there…

It was of Jewish origin and converts with the Catholicisme. It is under the influence of the philosopher Maritain that it gets rid of its label of artist society man to become “Dom Clément Jacob”, Organiste and Compositeur attached to the Benedictine abbey of In-Calcat.

It takes an active share with the new French-speaking liturgical repertory such as it rises from the instructions of the Vatican II. The Cantate the Voice constitutes an good example of its efforts for the reconversion of French Latin.

It continues to compose of the religious works (two Oratorio S: the Stained glass of Holy-Therese (1952) and Joinville and Saint-Louis (1971) according to Péguy). It also composes of many profane works, of which quartets, melodies, sonatas for piano.

Dom Clément of the Ordre of saint Benoît could remain faithful to the ideal of simplicity which was that of its Satie Master in the peace of the cloister and watch that it made a success of there his Twelve Canticles of festival .

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