Maurice Jarre Biography

Maurice Jarre, Composer

Born as	Maurice-Alexis Jarre
Occup.	Composer
From	France
Spouse	Leslie Caron (m. 1953–1965)
Born	September 13, 1924 Lyon, France
Died	March 28, 2009 Malibu, California, USA
Cause	Heart failure
Aged	84 years

Maurice Jarre was a renowned French film composer, born on September 13, 1924, in Lyon, France. He died on March 28, 2009, in Malibu, California, leaving behind a heritage of remarkable film ratings that formed the landscape of cinematic songs.

Jarre's intro to music began with his papa's insistence on him researching design, yet his enthusiasm for music steered him in the direction of make-ups. Initially focusing on the piano, he ultimately branched off to percussion and started playing for different jazz bands. He grew his love for symphonic music when he signed up with the Conservatoire de Paris in 1946, where he examined under composers such as Joseph Martenot, Arthur Honegger, and Tony Aubin.

After completing his researches, Jarre located job composing scores for French movie theater, ballet, and also operas. His occupation transitioned into the film market in 1951 when he composed his very first flick score, "La Tête Contre Les Murs". He functioned largely in the French movie theater, racking up movies like "The Burning Court" and also "Le Couteau Dans La Plaie". Nevertheless, his advancement minute came in creating the renowned rating for the 1962 David Lean movie, "Lawrence of Arabia", which earned him his initial Academy Award. This partnership noted the beginning of a long-term partnership in between Jarre as well as Lean, as they remained to collaborate on spectacular motion pictures like "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) and also "A Passage to India" (1984), with Jarre receiving Oscars for Best Original Score for each movie. Jointly, his 3 Academy Awards, among various other awards, underscore the brilliance as well as effect of his virtuosity.

Throughout his remarkable profession, Maurice Jarre composed scores for over 150 films, teaming up with prominent supervisors such as John Frankenheimer, Peter Weir, as well as Alfred Hitchcock. His songs went beyond the borders of the hollywood and got in popular culture, with musicians tasting his melodies to develop contemporary tunes. For example, Jarre's structure "Lara's Theme" from "Doctor Zhivago" influenced the 1966 chart-topper "Somewhere, My Love".

Maurice Jarre was married numerous times, and his kids acquired his imaginative genetics. His child, Jean-Michel Jarre, is a well-known electronic music composer, while his various other kid, Kevin, is an accomplished screenwriter. Maurice Jarre ended up being a naturalized American person in 1995, continuing to deal with movie ratings until his fatality in 2009.

With a profession extending over 5 years, Maurice Jarre's structures have left an indelible influence on movie and also orchestral songs. His ability to communicate a selection of emotions via sweeping melodies and also mixing styles has enshrined him as one of the best film authors of the 20th century. The tradition he has actually left behind continues to inspire musicians and also film lovers worldwide.

Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Maurice.

Related authors: David Lean (Director), John Frankenheimer (Director), Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist), Jean-Michel Jarre (Composer), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Peter Weir (Director), Alfred Hitchcock (Director)

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12 Famous quotes by Maurice Jarre

"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema"

"Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting"

"In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely"

"My parents did not have any interest in music"

"When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music"

"I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written"

"A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie"

"With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them"

"But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them"

"The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them"

"For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird"

"Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece"