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Georges Auric was a French composer of classical music. He was born in Lodève, Hérault, France, on 15 February 1899. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and was a member of the group of composers known as Les Six. He wrote music for the theatre, film, and ballet, and was a prolific composer of film scores. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his score for the film Moulin Rouge. He died in Paris on 23 July 1983. Auric's music is characterized by its lyricism and its use of traditional forms. He was influenced by the music of Debussy and Ravel, and his works often feature a blend of French and Spanish elements. He wrote a number of ballets, including La Belle et la Bête (1946) and Le Roi et l'Oiseau (1952). He also wrote the music for the film version of Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946). Auric's music has been performed by many of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Orchestre de Paris. He was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1924 and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1951.

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Occupation composer,soundtrack,music_department
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 15 February 1899
Birthday 15 February
Birthplace Lodève, Hérault, France
Date of death 23 July, 1983
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality France

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His wife is Michèle Battaïni (9 June 1982 - 23 July 1983) ( his death), Nora Auric (27 October 1930 - 30 March 1982) ( her death)

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Timeline

1972

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972

1960

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1960

1957

Allison (1957) with Deborah Kerr and - with Kerr again - the spooky 'Henry James' novel ("Turn of the Screw") UK adaptation The Innocents (1961).

1953

This was the wonderful, bittersweet comedy Roman Holiday (1953), directed by William Wyler and introducing a vivacious Audrey Hepburn to the silver screen.

1950

On through the 1950s and into the 1960s Auric was very busy with scores predominately of French films but some notable British and American efforts as well. Among several for the English language were the charming American war drama Heaven Knows, Mr.

1949

Auric's music (here Stravinsky-like) provided the perfect atmospheric score for the eerie British horror classic The Queen of Spades (1949). Auric's first American score very much displayed his depth in conveying the nuances of mood change in a story musically.

1946

The next year he scored perhaps his most famous musical partnership with Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast (1946). Auric's haunting, subdued music for the movie would be typical of his inventive style of transparent orchestration in which he might use only a few instruments at a time in a particular passage but eventually employ all the usual orchestral instrumentation in this progression to convey the whole of his score.

1945

His first UK score was for Dead of Night (1945), a stylish horror film.

The same year he also scored the Bernard Shaw comedic Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh.

1930

Their first collaboration was Cocteau's Blood of the Poet (1930).

But Auric did the scores of many small format movies with other French directors through the 1930s and the war years. He was also interested in what the British were doing in film work.

1920

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). By the time he was 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for ballets and the stage. With some interest in the avant garde, he became a friend of Erik Satie and playwright Jean Cocteau and joined their friends, the musical group "Les Six", whose members were impressive: Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre (the only woman member), and Louis Durey. Auric moved into music criticism for a short time and then began composing for poetic and other textual formats from his Les Six associations. But his stylistic development would prove to be very classical in sympathy. He especially continued his association with Cocteau who finally turned to films, and Auric turned to writing film scores.