Maxime Jacob, or Dom Clement Jacob, (13 January 1906, Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

 – 26 February 1977 Abbaye En-Calcat, Dourgne

Dourgne

Dourgne is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.-Demographics:-Sites and Monuments:Dourgne is known for its two Benedictine monasteries, the En Calcat Abbey and the Sainte Scholastique Abbey, both founded in 1890....

, Tarn) was a French composer and organist.

Jacob studied at the Paris Conservatory with Charles Koechlin

Charles Koechlin

Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...

 and André Gedalge

André Gedalge

André Gedalge , was an influential French composer and teacher.- Biography :André Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris, where he first worked as a bookseller and editor specializing in livres de prix for public schools...

; an admirer of Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...

 and Erik Satie

Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...

, he was a member of the Ecole d'Acueil. In 1929, Jacob converted from Judaism

Judaism

Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

 to Catholicism

Catholicism

Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....

 (influenced by Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and is a prominent drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

) and became a Benedictine monk. He would go on to study organ with Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling...

, as well as Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services...

.

Jacob also published two books, L'art et la grâce (1939) and Souvenirs a deux voix (1969).

Works

Vocal

• Par la Taille (opera, after Alfred Jarry
  Alfred Jarry
  Alfred Jarry was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side....
  
  )
• 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
  Clément Doucet
  Léon Clément Doucet was a Belgian pianist.Doucet studied for a time at the local Conservatoire, where his teacher Arthur De Greef had been a pupil of Liszt. Although his formal training was classical, he traveled to the USA around 1920 and by his return in 1923 had developed considerable talent as...
  
  
• Livre d'orgue (1967)