Canon
Where to start with Ibert
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
OrchestralEscales, "Ports of Call"
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Chamber2 Interludes suivi de Carillion, for flute, violin, and harpsichord
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Vocal2 Steles orientees, for voice and flute
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StageDon Quichotte — Film score
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KeyboardFrancaise
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OrchestralDivertissement
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OrchestralFlute Concerto
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Chamber2 Movements for 2 Flutes, Clarinet, and Bassoon
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Chamber3 Pièces brèves, for wind quintet
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Chamber5 Pièces en trio, for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
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Chamber6 Pièces, for harp
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VocalAria
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ChamberAria, for solo instrument and piano
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ChamberAriette, for guitar
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OrchestralBacchanale
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Ibert's catalogueMost Popular
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Flute Concerto
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Divertissement (chamber orchestra)comic pastiche of waltzes, marches, and ballads
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Histoires — La petite âne blanc (piano)
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Escales (Ports of Call)
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Concertino da camera (saxophone)
Most Acclaimed
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Divertissement
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Flute Concerto
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String Quartet
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Escales
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Louisville Concerto
Most Weird
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Divertissementwritten for a stage farce — includes a police whistle and ”Mendelssohn’s Wedding March” interrupted by a jazz band
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Capriccio for violin and piano
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Ports of Call — Tunis-Neftathe third movement is in three keys simultaneously
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Histoires — La Cage de cristalthe crystal cage — unusual extended technique for 1922
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Bacchanale (orchestra)
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 63
- Orchestral
- ● Escales, "Ports of Call"
- Divertissement
- Flute Concerto
- Bacchanale
- Bostoniana
- Cello Concerto
- Concertino da camera, for alto saxophone and 11 instruments
- Concerto, for cello and 10 wind instruments
- Diane de Poitiers: Suite no. 1
- Diane de Poitiers: Suite no. 2
- Féerique in E — Symphonic poem
- Golgotha
- Hommage à Mozart
- La ballade de la geôle de Reading, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
- Louisville-concert
- Macbeth
- Ouverture de fête
- Suite symphonique, "Paris"
- Symphonie concertante for Oboe and String Orchestra
- Symphonie marine
- Chamber
- 2 Interludes suivi de Carillion, for flute, violin, and harpsichord
- 2 Movements for 2 Flutes, Clarinet, and Bassoon
- 3 Pièces brèves, for wind quintet
- 5 Pièces en trio, for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
- 6 Pièces, for harp
- Aria, for solo instrument and piano
- Ariette, for guitar
- Capriccio, for chamber ensemble
- Caprilena, for solo violin
- Entr'acte, for flute and harp
- Française, for solo guitar
- Ghirlarzana, for solo cello
- Histoires, for saxophone and piano
- Impromptu, for trumpet and piano
- Jeux, sonatina for flute and piano
- Le jardinier de Samos Suite, for chamber ensemble
- Pastoral, for 4 pipes
- Piece, for flute
- Souvenir, for string quartet and piano
- String Quartet
- The Gaseous Water's Saleswoman, for banyan and violin
- Trio for violin, cello, and harp
- Vocal
- 2 Steles orientees, for voice and flute
- Aria
- Chansons de Don Quichotte, for voice and piano
- Chant de folie, for voice and piano
- La berceuse du petit Zébu, for 3 voices and female or children's chorus
- Le petit âne blanc, for voice and piano
- Suite élisbéthaine, for female voices and orchestra
- Stage
- Don Quichotte — Film score
- Felicie Nanteuil — Film score
- La licorne — Ballet
- Persée et Andromède — Opera
- Keyboard
- Francaise
- Histoires, 10 pieces for piano 4-hands
- L'espiègle du village de Lilliput
- Le vent dans les ruines
- Les rencontres
- Petite suite in 15 images
- Pièce romantique
- Scherzetto
- Toccata sur le nom d'Albert Roussel
- Valse, ballet movement