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Georges Auric
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Composer (Music Score) Born: February 15, 1899 in Lodève, France Death: July 23, 1983 in Paris, France Biography:As with many of the best film music composers, "Georges Auric" was a child prodigy. At 15, the French-born Auric published his first compositions, and before he was 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for several ballets and stage productions. Considered "avant garde" in the days before atonality became commonplace, Auric was a favorite of such progressive filmmakers as "Rene Clair" and "Jean Cocteau". It was for Cocteau's 1930 film "Blood of a Poet" that Auric wrote his first film score; his next assignment was "Clair"'s "A Nous a Liberte" (1931), in which characters unexpectedly break into song at the drop of a chapeau. After the war, Auric wrote extensively for the British film industry, contributing scores to such films as "Dead of Night" (1945), "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1946) and "Passport to Pimlico" (1949). The music for these productions was as distinctly British as Auric's... Full Biography
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