Georges Auric
Georges Auric (15 February 1899 – 23 July 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, France. He was considered one of Les Six, a group of artists informally associated with Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie. Before he turned 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for several ballets and stage productions. He also had a long and distinguished career as a film composer.
Georges Auric began his musical career at a young age, performing a piano recital at the Société musicale indépendante at the age of 14. Several songs that he had written were then performed in the following year by Société Nationale de Musique. Along with his early successes professionally, Auric studied music at the Paris Conservatoire, as well as composition with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris and Albert Roussel. Having gained recognition as a child prodigy both in composition and piano performance, he became a protégé of Erik Satie during the following decade. During the 1910s and 20s, he was a significant contributor of avant-garde music in Paris and was significantly influenced by Cocteau and the other composers of Les Six.
Auric's early compositions were marked by a reaction against the musical establishment and the use of referential material. Because of this and his association with Cocteau and Satie, Auric was grouped into Les Six by music critic Henri Collet, and was friends with the artist Jean Hugo. His participation led to writing settings of poetry and other texts as songs and musicals. Along with the other five composers, he contributed a piece to L'Album des Six. In 1921, Cocteau asked him to write the music for his ballet, Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel. He found himself short of time, so he asked his fellow composers of Les Six to contribute some music. All except Louis Durey agreed. During this time, he wrote his one-act opera Sous le masque (1927) (an earlier opera, La Reine de coeur (1919), is lost). It was also in 1927 that he contributed the Rondeau for the children's ballet L'Éventail de Jeanne, a collaboration between ten French composers. In 1952 he participated in yet another collaboration, the set of orchestral variations La Guirlande de Campra. Les Six, though an informal and short-lived group, became known for its reaction against the musical establishment of the time and the promotion of absurdism and satire; the group rebelled similarly against Wagner as it did against Debussy. The music of these composers, including Auric, represented the specific cultural scene of Paris at the time and rejected the international styles brought by Russian and German music, as well as the impressionism and symbolism of Debussy. Auric's later development as a populist composer was prefigured by many of the techniques and ideals of Les Six, especially the use of popular music and situations. Music of the circus or the dance hall played a significant role in the music of Les Six, especially in their actual collaborations. However, Les Six soon drew apart, with Auric and others taking different approaches to their art. ...
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Películas (87)
Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray
2024 · Self (uncredited)
The Christmas Tree
1969 · Original Music Composer
Therese and Isabelle
1968 · Original Music Composer
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966 · Original Music Composer
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966 · Original Music Composer
L'Âge heureux
1966 · Music
Thomas the Impostor
1965 · Original Music Composer
The Mind Benders
1963 · Original Music Composer
Midnight Meeting
1962 · Original Music Composer
Bells Without Joy
1962 · Original Music Composer
The Burning Court
1962 · Original Music Composer
The Innocents
1961 · Original Music Composer
The Crumblers Are Doing Well
1961 · Music
Bridge to the Sun
1961 · Original Music Composer
Goodbye Again
1961 · Original Music Composer
Testament of Orpheus
1960 · Music
SOS Pacific
1959 · Original Music Composer
The Journey
1959 · Music
Christine
1958 · Original Music Composer
Next to No Time
1958 · Music
The Night Heaven Fell
1958 · Original Music Composer
Bonjour Tristesse
1958 · Original Music Composer
Walk Into Paradise
1957 · Original Music Composer
He Who Must Die
1957 · Music
The Witches of Salem
1957 · Original Music Composer
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957 · Original Music Composer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956 · Original Music Composer
Bold Adventure
1956 · Original Music Composer
Gervaise
1956 · Original Music Composer
The Mystery of Picasso
1956 · Music
Lola Montès
1955 · Original Music Composer
The Bespoke Overcoat
1955 · Music
Chéri-Bibi
1955 · Music
Rififi
1955 · Original Music Composer
Abdullah's Harem
1955 · Music
The Divided Heart
1954 · Original Music Composer
Flesh and Desire
1954 · Music
Father Brown
1954 · Original Music Composer
The Good Die Young
1954 · Original Music Composer
The Slave
1953 · Music
Roman Holiday
1953 · Original Music Composer
The Wages of Fear
1953 · Original Music Composer, Music Director
The Titfield Thunderbolt
1953 · Original Music Composer
Holiday for Henrietta
1952 · Original Music Composer
Moulin Rouge
1952 · Original Music Composer
The Respectful Prostitute
1952 · Original Music Composer
Leathernose
1952 · Original Music Composer
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · Original Music Composer
The Galloping Major
1951 · Original Music Composer
Dear Caroline
1951 · Music
Cage of Gold
1950 · Original Music Composer
Orpheus
1950 · Original Music Composer
The Century Is Fifty
1950 · Original Music Composer
Maya
1949 · Original Music Composer
The Spider and the Fly
1949 · Original Music Composer
Passport to Pimlico
1949 · Original Music Composer
The Queen of Spades
1949 · Original Music Composer
Silent Dust
1949 · Music
Daughter of the Sands
1949 · Music
The Storm Within
1948 · Original Music Composer
Another Shore
1948 · Music
The Eagle with Two Heads
1948 · Music
Corridor of Mirrors
1948 · Original Music Composer
The Queen's Lover
1948 · Original Music Composer
It Always Rains on Sunday
1947 · Original Music Composer
The Chips Are Down
1947 · Music
Hue and Cry
1947 · Music
Beauty and the Beast
1946 · Original Music Composer
Pastoral Symphony
1946 · Original Music Composer
Caesar and Cleopatra
1946 · Original Music Composer
Dead of Night
1945 · Original Music Composer
The Eternal Return
1943 · Music
L'assassin a peur la nuit
1942 · Original Music Composer
Gambling Hell
1942 · Original Music Composer
La Mode rêvée
1940 · Original Music Composer
The Curtain Rises
1938 · Original Music Composer
The Lafarge Case
1938 · Original Music Composer
Orage
1938 · Original Music Composer
The Messenger
1937 · Original Music Composer
La Danseuse rouge
1937 · Original Music Composer
Under Western Eyes
1936 · Music
Mysteries of Paris
1935 · Music Director
Ladies Lake
1934 · Original Music Composer
The Blood of a Poet
1932 · Original Music Composer
À Nous la Liberté
1931 · Original Music Composer
The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice
1929 · Self (uncredited)
Entr'acte
1924 · A man following the hearse (uncredited)
