According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Jacques Ibert was a French composer, pupil of Fauré; director of the French Academy in Rome from 1937. Collaborated with Honnegger in opera "The Eaglet". Other works include "Angélique" and other operas; symphonic poems after Wilde's "The ballad of Reading Jail", orchestral suite "Ports of Call"; Divertissement, arranged from his music to the play "The Italian Straw Hat"; Concerto da Camera for alto saxophone and 11 instruments; "The Little White Donkey" and other piano works.