Georges Auric
Georges Auric (born February 15, 1899 in Lodève , Département Hérault , † July 23, 1983 in Paris ) was a French composer .
Life
Auric belonged to the Groupe des Six , a group of composers who, following Eric Satie , propagated a new, simple style in contrast to the musical impressionism of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel and the late romantic music of Richard Wagner . The group's spokesman was later the non-composer Jean Cocteau , with whom Auric often worked as a film music composer. In 1962 he became director of the Paris Opera and, as successor to Jacques Ibert, he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts . In 1979 Auric was elected an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Georges Auric wrote comic operas , ballets and especially film music with lively, often ecstatic rhythms. Its inspirational power was considered classic, its expressive power modern.
In the years leading up to World War II, Auric was also a busy, respected music critic and columnist , among others. a. at Paris-Soir , Nouvelles littéraires , Marianne (magazine) . Later he was for decades (1954–1978) president of the French music collecting society SACEM , which corresponds to the German GEMA . From 1962 to 1968 he was chairman of the “Réunion des théâtres lyriques nationaux”.
Auric was given an honorary grave at the cimetière du Montparnasse celebrity cemetery in Paris .
Works (selection)
Compositions
- Ballet "Chemin de Lumière" 1952
- Pastorales pour piano
- "Quatre chants de France malheureuse" (1949)
Film music
- 1930: The blood of a poet (Le sang d'un poète)
- 1931: Long live freedom (À nous la Liberté)
- 1939: The Macau gambling den (Macau, l'Enfer du jeu)
- 1943: The Eternal Ban (L'éternel retour)
- 1945: Dream without End (Dead of Night)
- 1945: Caesar and Cleopatra (Caesar and Cleopatra)
- 1945: Once upon a time (La Belle et la Bête)
- 1946: The Little Detectives (Hue and Cry)
- 1948: The double-headed eagle (L'aigle à deux têtes)
- 1948: Blockade in London (Passport to Pimlico)
- 1948: Pique Dame ( The Queen of Spades )
- 1949: Orpheus (Orphée)
- 1949: The Master Thief of Paris (The Spider and the Fly)
- 1951: Luck Came Overnight (The Lavender Hill Mob)
- 1952: The reward of fear (Le Salaire de la peur)
- 1952: Moulin Rouge
- 1953: Titfield Express (The Titfield Thunderbolt)
- 1953: A Heart and a Crown (Roman Holiday)
- 1954: The Strange Ways of Father Brown (Father Brown)
- 1954: The Divided Heart (The Divided Heart)
- 1954: Rififi (Du rififi chez les hommes)
- 1955: The coat made to measure (The Bespoke Overcoat)
- 1955: Lola Montez (Lola Montès)
- 1956: Gervaise
- 1956: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris)
- 1956: The Adventures of Till Ulenspiegel (Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle)
- 1956: The Sailor and the Nun (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison)
- 1957: The man who has to die (Celui qui doit mourir)
- 1957: Bonjour sadness
- 1957: Esther Costello (The Story of Esther Costello)
- 1957: Spies at work (Les Espions)
- 1958: Christine
- 1959: The Journey (The Journey)
- 1959: Big Air and Hot Love (SOS Pacific)
- 1960: The Testament of Orpheus (Le testament d'Orphée)
- 1960: final chord
- 1960: do you love Brahms? (Goodbye Again)
- 1961: The Princess of Cleve (La Princesse de Clèves)
- 1961: Castle of Secrets (The Innocents)
- 1966: Three break pilots in Paris (La Grande vadrouille)
- 1966: The Poppy Is Also a Flower (The Poppy Is Also a Flower)
- 1966: The Forbidden Door (L'âge heureux)
actor
- 1924: Entr'acte
literature
- Jens Rosteck: Being there is everything. Georges Auric - Portrait of a Silhouette . in: Literature at 11, Issue XV Marburg 1998, pp. 69–87.
- Louis Laloy: La musique retrouvée A review of epochs
- Franziska Kollinger: From the stage to the film: Georges Auric's music of the 1930s , Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, [2019], ISBN 978-3-515-12241-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Georges Auric in the catalog of the German National Library
- Georges Auric in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Honorary Members: Georges Auric. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 4, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Jens Rosteck: Georges Auric - Portrait of a Silhouette , p. 81.
- ↑ Jens Rosteck: Georges Auric - Portrait of a Silhouette , p. 74.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Auric, Georges |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lodève , Herault department , France |
DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1983 |
Place of death | Paris , France |