Sylvère Caffot

Sylvère Caffot ( René Sylviano , born December 10, 1903 in Mantes-la-Jolie , † October 16, 1993 in Paris ) was a French composer.

The son of the composer Jules Caffot studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Second Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1929 with the cantata La Vierge guerrière . Since the early 1920s he has been composing for the Varieté, a. a. the chanson Il faut savoir demander ça gentiment , interpreted by Jean Gabin .

Caffot became known as the composer of more than one hundred film scores under the name René Sylviano . Among them was the music for the first French-language sound film Le Chanteur inconnu (1931) by Viktor Tourjansky , François Premier (1937) by Christian-Jaque (with Fernandel ), Le Vicomte de Bragelone (1954) by Fernando Cerchio (with Georges Marchal ), Le Chômeur de Clochemerle (1957) by Jean Boyer (with Fernandel), Prisons de femmes (1958) and La Porteuse de pain (1963) by Maurice Cloche (with Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort ). As a chanson composer he wrote a. a. for Georges Guétary Si vous voulez savoir and La chanson de Venise and for Mistinguett Je suis née dans le faubourg St-Denis and Prenez mes mandarines .

Since 1945 Caffot was a member of the Council of SACEM , in 1947 he was a juror at the Festival de Cannes .

Filmography (selection)

• 1930: tenderness
• 1931: The train of the heart (La ronde des heures)
• 1940: Narcissus, the involuntary aviator (Narcisse)
• 1941: Your first rendezvous (Premier rendez-vous)
• 1942: Annette and the blonde lady (Annette et la dame blonde)
• 1943: Waltz in White (La Valse blanche)
• 1945: I never pay! (Le roi des resquilleurs)
• 1946: I found an angel (L'ange qu'on ma donné)
• 1946: When Heaven Fails (La tentation de Barbizon)
• 1946: Late Revenge (Roger la Honte)
• 1947: Casanova (Les aventures de Casanova)
• 1949: Last Love (Dernier amour)
• 1949: The secret of the five red tulips (Cinq tulipes rouges)
• 1951: We need a man (Le désir et l'amour)
• 1954: murder on the roof garden (Bonnes à tuer)
• 1954: The Count and the Three Musketeers (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne)
• 1955: Your first date
• 1956: Hunted Innocence (La foire aux femmes)
• 1956: The Lady Scare (La terreur des dames)
• 1957: The Lazy One (Le Chômeur de Clochemerle)
• 1958: women's prison (Prison de femmes)
• 1959: The hell of the virgins (Bal de nuit)
• 1963: Outlawed innocently (La porteuse de pain)

Web links

• René Sylviano in the Internet Movie Database (English)