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- Providing a unique finesse to film music, George Auric contributed nearly 130 scores, placing him along side some of the most prolific of the contemporary Hollywood film composers.
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May 21, 2018 · Auric's quirky classicism is displayed in more than 75 scores from 1930 to 1969. He never lost sight of his own artistic vision, no matter the assignment he was given, and his screen music is shot through with echoes of Durey, Tailleferre, Poulenc, Honneger and Milhaud, the other members of "The Group of Six" (Auric was the sixth member).
Providing a unique finesse to film music, George Auric contributed nearly 130 scores, placing him along side some of the most prolific of the contemporary Hollywood film composers.
- February 15, 1899
- July 23, 1983
Although he composed more than 120 film scores during his career, Georges Auric (1899–1983) did not compose his first until well after his thirtieth birthday. However, as a disciple of Guillaume Apollinaire's esprit nouveau he was interested in the genre much earlier.
His film score for Cocteau's Le Sang d'un poète (1929) marked the beginning of his important contribution to this field, which included the scores for René Clair's À nous la liberté (1932), Cocteau's La Belle et la bête (1946), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), and Moulin Rouge (1952).
Auric wrote well over 100 film scores, including the soundtrack for Roman Holiday, and was notably affiliated with Les Six, a group of French composers reacting to the musical establishment...
Jan 27, 2022 · Here Roust shows Auric’s important contributions to French and, eventually, international cinema (between 1952 and his death, Auric wrote scores for thirty-one international co-productions). His most lucrative venture was the 1952 British film Moulin Rouge , directed by John Huston and starring Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Auric was president of Lamoureux Concerts, and general administrator of the Paris Opera for six years. He has been elected to the Academie des Beaux-Arts, and now works as a critic. 1920 (21)
