Jean-Claude Petit
Jean-Claude Petit (born 14 November 1943) is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. He did the string arrangements for Mink DeVille's Le Chat Bleu album, as well as orchestrating the backing parts to some French pop singles in the mid-to-late 1960s, including those of Erick Saint-Laurent and yé-yé girls Christine Pilzer and Monique Thubert.
In 1973 he composed La leçon de Michette. The song was popular in Italy due to its use in the soundtrack of a well-known Carosello (the Italian TV spot broadcast) from 1973 to 1976.
As a music ghostwriter for director Michel Magne, Petit did not get credit for his film scores until he was 36.
1979 saw his first major film soundtrack commission (Alexandro Jodorowsky's Tusk), but he had been releasing solo records at least a decade earlier, including at least four for the Chappell Music Library, as well as his album Chez Jean-Claude Petit, released in the early 1970s. In 1976 he collaborated with Pierre Delanoë, Toto Cutugno, Vito Pallavicini in a very popular and funky music for Mireille Mathieu called Ciao Bambino, Sorry. In addition, he was a frequent collaborator with French film music composer Jack Arel: the pair's most well-known production, "Psychedelic Portrait", was featured in an episode of the cult TV series The Prisoner. His highly acclaimed score for Cyrano de Bergerac remains perhaps his best known work internationally. In 1995 he was nominated for a Victoires de la Musique award in soundtrack of the year for L'Etudiante Etranger. Jean Claude conducted and arranged for American Orchestra leader Billy Vaughn in the 1970s: At least two of Billy's Paramount LPs "An Old Fashioned Love Song" PAS 6025 and "Greatest Country Hits" give Jean Claude credit as arranged/conductor. The 'Greatest Country Hits' Lp Paramount PAS 6044 also includes a Jean Claude original "Walk A Country Mile".
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Fotos
Filme (50)
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
2022 · Self
In The Tracks Of - Special Edition
2020 · Self
Steht auf, Genossinnen!
2018 · Original Music Composer
The Force of Destiny
2017 · Self
Dalida
2017 · Original Music Composer
First Growth
2015 · Original Music Composer
Hôtel Normandy
2013 · Original Music Composer
Visage
2009 · Music, Original Music Composer
Dance with Him
2007 · Music
One Summer
2006 · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
Podium
2004 · Original Music Composer
Simon le juste
2003 · Original Music Composer
Liebe deinen Vater
2002 · Original Music Composer
Lumumba
2000 · Original Music Composer
Paddy
1999 · Original Music Composer
Bitter Sugar
1998 · Music
Aristotle's Plot
1997 · Original Music Composer
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996 · Original Music Composer
The Horseman on the Roof
1995 · Original Music Composer
Foreign Student
1994 · Original Music Composer
Nobody's Children
1994 · Original Music Composer
Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
1994 · Original Music Composer
The Dove's Lost Necklace
1992 · Music
The Playboys
1992 · Original Music Composer
Guilty of Innocence
1992 · Original Music Composer
588 rue Paradis
1992 · Original Music Composer
Mother
1991 · Original Music Composer
Toujours seuls
1991 · Pianist
Rue du Bac
1991 · Music
Uranus
1990 · Original Music Composer
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990 · Original Music Composer
Headstrong
1989 · Original Music Composer
Deux
1989 · Original Music Composer
The Return of the Musketeers
1989 · Original Music Composer
Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
1989 · Original Music Composer
Lotus Flower
1988 · Torpierre
Vent de panique
1987 · Original Music Composer
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
1987 · Original Music Composer
Manon of the Spring
1986 · Original Music Composer
Jean de Florette
1986 · Original Music Composer
Le Caviar rouge
1986 · Original Music Composer
Billy Ze Kick
1985 · Music
Sadness and Beauty
1985 · Original Music Composer
Slices of Life
1985 · Original Music Composer
L'Addition
1984 · Original Music Composer
Vive la sociale !
1983 · Original Music Composer
Tusk
1980 · Original Music Composer
Promised Woman
1976 · The Lover
Crime Thief
1969 · Conductor
Testament of Orpheus
1960 · 2e Homme-Chien (non crédité)
Serien (7)
La chanson de l'année
2004 · Self
Les Misérables - Gefangene des Schicksals
2000 · Original Music Composer
Bravo la famille
1994 · Sound
The Castle of Olive Trees
1993 · Original Music Composer
Victoires de la musique
1985 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self, Self - Pianist
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
1971 · Sound