Vladimir Cosma

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Vladimir Cosma (2007)

Vladimir Cosma (born April 13, 1940 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian- French film composer and conductor .

Life

Vladimir Cosma, the son of the conductor Teodor Cosma , learned the violin and began working as a film composer and arranger for Michel Legrand . In Germany it was mainly by the ZDF - Vierteiler known in the 1960s / 1970s. The title track from The Adventures of David Balfour (1978), David's Song , was later interpreted by the Kelly Family and covered by numerous other artists.

A well-known composition by Cosma is the title melody of the film The Big Blonde with the Black Shoe (1972) with Pierre Richard , which was played by Gheorghe Zamfir on the panpipe . He set three films by Louis de Funès and two by Jean-Paul Belmondo to music . Rabbi Jakob's theme song received a great deal of international attention and is still received in films today, as in Monsieur Claude and his daughters. For the film Asterix - Victory over Caesar , he wrote the well-known title song Astérix est lá , which was sung by Plastic Bertrand in the film and became one of the most famous Asterix pieces of music. Most of his film scores have been released on phonograms. The most successful single was Reality from the film La Boum - Die Fete , sung by Richard Sanderson .

Filmography (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Nadia's theme
  DE 43 02/21/1977 (4 weeks)
David's song
  DE 28 02/05/1979 (7 weeks)
  UK 64 07/14/1979 (1 week)

Opera

Awards

  • 1978: Nomination for the César for a crazy guy
  • 1980: Nomination for the César for The Dropout
  • 1982: César for the best film music for diva
  • 1983: Nomination for the César for La Boum 2 - The party continues
  • 1984: David di Donatello for the best music for Le Bal - The Dance Palace
  • 1984: César for the best music for Le Bal - The Dance Palace
  • 1986: 7 d'Or for the best music of the French television award La (n) ème Nuit des 7 d'Or for L'Été 36
  • 1991: 7 d'Or for the best music of the French television award La (n) ème Nuit des 7 d'Or
  • 1991: two nominations for the César for My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Cosma  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HIT BILANZ, German chart singles 1956–2001 on CD-ROM, Taurus Press
personal data
SURNAME Cosma, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian film composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest