Georges Auric

Age: N/A | From: Lodève, Hérault, France

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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Lodève, Hérault, France

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Movie Involvements: 78

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Biography

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. ... Source: Article "Georges Auric" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
1959	Self	Discorama 1959-02-04 TV Show
1929	Self (uncredited)	The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice 1929-06-06 Movie
1924	A man following the hearse (uncredited)	Entr'acte 1924-12-04 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1969	Original Music Composer	The Christmas Tree 1969-09-25 Movie
1968	Original Music Composer	Therese and Isabelle 1968-05-14 Movie
1966	Original Music Composer	Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! 1966-12-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Poppy Is Also a Flower 1966-05-20 Movie
	Music	L'Âge heureux 1966-02-11 Movie
1965	Original Music Composer	Thomas the Impostor 1965-06-01 Movie
1963	Original Music Composer	The Mind Benders 1963-02-01 Movie
1962	Original Music Composer	The Burning Court 1962-03-30 Movie
1961	Music	The Innocents 1961-12-15 Movie
	Music	The Crumblers Are Doing Well 1961-11-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bridge to the Sun 1961-10-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Goodbye Again 1961-05-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Midnight Meeting 1961-01-01 Movie
1959	Music	SOS Pacific 1959-10-14 Movie
	Music	The Journey 1959-02-11 Movie
1958	Original Music Composer	Christine 1958-12-19 Movie
	Music	Next to No Time 1958-08-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Night Heaven Fell 1958-04-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bonjour Tristesse 1958-01-15 Movie
1957	Music	He Who Must Die 1957-05-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Witches of Salem 1957-04-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison 1957-03-13 Movie
1956	Original Music Composer	The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1956-12-19 Movie
	Music	Bold Adventure 1956-11-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Gervaise 1956-09-05 Movie
	Music	The Mystery of Picasso 1956-05-18 Movie
1955	Original Music Composer	Lola Montès 1955-12-23 Movie
	Music	The Bespoke Overcoat 1955-11-01 Movie
	Music	Chéri-Bibi 1955-06-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rififi 1955-04-13 Movie
	Music	Abdullah's Harem 1955-02-01 Movie
1954	Original Music Composer	The Divided Heart 1954-11-09 Movie
	Music	Flesh and Desire 1954-06-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Father Brown 1954-06-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Good Die Young 1954-03-02 Movie
1953	Music	The Slave 1953-09-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Roman Holiday 1953-08-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Wages of Fear 1953-04-22 Movie
	Music Director	The Wages of Fear 1953-04-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Titfield Thunderbolt 1953-03-04 Movie
1952	Original Music Composer	Moulin Rouge 1952-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Respectful Prostitute 1952-10-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Leathernose 1952-03-26 Movie
1951	Music	The Lavender Hill Mob 1951-06-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Galloping Major 1951-05-07 Movie
	Music	Dear Caroline 1951-02-28 Movie
1950	Original Music Composer	Cage of Gold 1950-10-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Orpheus 1950-09-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Century Is Fifty 1950-03-16 Movie
1949	Original Music Composer	Maya 1949-12-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Spider and the Fly 1949-12-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Passport to Pimlico 1949-10-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Queen of Spades 1949-03-16 Movie
	Music	Silent Dust 1949-02-01 Movie
1948	Original Music Composer	The Storm Within 1948-12-01 Movie
	Music	Another Shore 1948-11-24 Movie
	Music	The Eagle with Two Heads 1948-09-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Corridor of Mirrors 1948-02-23 Movie
	Music	The Queen's Lover 1948-02-17 Movie
1947	Original Music Composer	It Always Rains on Sunday 1947-11-28 Movie
	Music	The Chips Are Down 1947-07-01 Movie
	Music	Hue and Cry 1947-02-01 Movie
1946	Original Music Composer	Beauty and the Beast 1946-10-29 Movie
1945	Original Music Composer	Caesar and Cleopatra 1945-12-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dead of Night 1945-09-09 Movie
1943	Music	The Eternal Return 1943-12-13 Movie
1942	Original Music Composer	L'assassin a peur la nuit 1942-09-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Gambling Hell 1942-04-11 Movie
1940	Original Music Composer	La Mode rêvée 1940-01-28 Movie
1938	Original Music Composer	The Curtain Rises 1938-10-06 Movie
	Music	Orage 1938-04-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lafarge Case 1938-03-08 Movie
1937	Music	The Messenger 1937-09-02 Movie
1935	Music Director	Mysteries of Paris 1935-10-13 Movie
1934	Original Music Composer	Ladies Lake 1934-05-18 Movie
1932	Original Music Composer	The Blood of a Poet 1932-01-20 Movie
1931	Original Music Composer	À Nous la Liberté 1931-12-18 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv