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Georges Auric ( French: [ɔʁik]; 15 February 1899 – 23 July 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, France. [1] He was considered one of Les Six, a group of artists informally associated with Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie. [2] Before he turned 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for several ballets and stage ...
- 15 February 1899
- 23 July 1983 (aged 84)
Georges Auric (born Feb. 15, 1899, Lodève, France—died July 24, 1983, Paris) was a French composer best known for his film scores and ballets. In these and other works, he was among those who reacted against the chromatic harmonic language and Symbolist structures of Claude Debussy.
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May 21, 2018 · Auric, Georges. Auric, Georges, notable French composer; b. Lodève, Hérault, Feb. 15, 1899; d. Paris, July 23, 1983. He first studied music at the Montpellier Cons., then went to Paris, where he was a student of Caussade at the Cons, and of d’Indy and Roussel at the Schola Cantorum. While still in his early youth (1911–15), he wrote ...
May 21, 2020 · Although Georges Auric (1899–1983) is best remembered today for his affiliation with the Groupe des Six, his musical career was long, productive, complex, and intimately attuned to the realities of modern life. His polyvalent career—as a composer of concert, theatrical, ballet, popular, film, and television music; music critic; opera ...
Georges Auric. Composer: The Wages of Fear. At the least George Auric was a fine musician, having been a child prodigy, but he was much more in the musical world. He studied under Vincent D'Indy (a devotee of Cesar Franck and the German school of symphonic composition) and attended the Paris Conservatory (1920).
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- Lodève, Hérault, France
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- Paris, France
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Jan 27, 2022 · Across the Atlantic, Carl Schmidt’s 2009 publication of Auric’s critical writings (Écrits sur la musique de Georges Auric/Writings on Music by Georges Auric, ed. Carl Schmidt (Lewiston, NY, 2009)), and Schmidt’s 2013 catalogue of the composer’s works have been the most noteworthy additions to scholarship, but a thorough assessment has ...
Jul 24, 1983 · Georges Auric, a composer for more than 60 French films, died today at his Paris apartment, friends of the family announced. He was 84 years old. Mr. Auric was among France's best-known ...
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