{{Short description|French composer and organist}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}} '''Maxime Jacob''', or '''Dom Clément Jacob''', (13 January 1906 in Bordeaux – 26 February 1977 in En-Calcat Abbey, Dourgne, Tarn) was a French composer and organist.
==Biography==
Jacob studied at the Paris Conservatory with Charles Koechlin and André Gedalge; an admirer of Darius Milhaud and Erik Satie, he was a member of the École d'Arcueil, a group of young composers sponsored by Satie after his rupture with his previous group of protégés, Les Six. Other members of this short-lived group included Henri Cliquet-Pleyel, Henri Sauguet and Roger Désormière.
In 1927, Jacob worked with Antonin Artaud at the ''Théâtre Alfred Jarry'' composing the score for his production of V''entre brûlé; ou La Mère folle'' (1927)''.''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jannarone|first=Kimberly|date=2005|title=The Theatre before Its Double: Artaud Directs in the Alfred Jarry Theatre|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0040557405000153/type/journal_article|journal=Theatre Survey|language=en|volume=46|issue=2|pages=247–273|doi=10.1017/S0040557405000153|s2cid=194096618 |issn=0040-5574|url-access=subscription}}</ref><sup>:252</sup>
In 1929, Jacob converted from Judaism to Catholicism (influenced by Jacques Maritain) and became a Benedictine monk at En-Calcat Abbey.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gollin |first1=James |title=Pied Piper: The Many Lives of Noah Greenberg |date=2001 |publisher=Pendragon Press |isbn=978-1-57647-029-9 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i0WTRsr4mrMC |access-date=1 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref> He would go on to study organ with Maurice Duruflé, as well as Gregorian chant.
Jacob also published two books, ''L'art et la grâce'' (1939) and ''Souvenirs a deux voix'' (1969).
In the English-speaking world, his hymn tune "Living God" in 77.77 meter with 77.77 refrain, used for ''I Received the Living God'' (''J'ai reçu le Dieu vivant''),<ref>Musica Sacra Forum http://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/4940/vatican-ii-hymnal-installment-5-hymn-selections-completed-/p2 (copyright for hymn held by Éditions du Seuil)—Hymnary.org and Soundclick.com, among others, have listed the hymn as "Anonymous."</ref> is well known.
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==Works== ;Vocal *''Par la Taille'' (opera, after Alfred Jarry) *''Le Vitrail de Sainte-Thérèse'' (oratorio, 1952) *''Joinville et Saint-Louis'' (oratorio, after Péguy, 1971) *''Les psaumes pour tous les temps'' (1966) *ca. 400 stage songs
;Orchestral *''Ouverture'' (1923) *Piano Concerto, 1961
;Chamber music *8 string quartets
;Miscellaneous *Piano pieces for Clément Doucet *''Livre d'orgue'' (1967)
==Further reading== *Marie-Rose Clouzot (1969), ''Souvenirs en deux voix: De Maxime Jacob à dom Clément Jacob'', Toulouse: Privat. *Don Randel, ''The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music''. Harvard, 1996, p. 413.
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