Georges Auric

Georges Auric

Known for: Sound
Biography: 1899-02-15
Deathday: 1983-07-23 (84 years old)

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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. ...


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Filmography

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Volpone

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L'Âge heureux

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Thomas the Impostor

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The Mind Benders

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Bells Without Joy

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The Burning Court

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The Innocents

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Goodbye Again

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Le Rendez-vous de minuit

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SOS Pacific

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Christine

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Walk Into Paradise

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Lola Montès

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Chéri-Bibi

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Rififi

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The Divided Heart

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Cage of Gold

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Beauty and the Beast

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Blind Desire

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The Eternal Return

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Little Nothings

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Midnight in Paris

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Gambling Hell

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Opéra-musette

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La Mode rêvée

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His Uncle from Normandy

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The Curtain Rises

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Orage

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Street Without Joy

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The Lafarge Case

The Lafarge Case (1938)

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Tamara la complaisante

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Alibi

Alibi (1937)

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A Picnic on the Grass

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Gribouille

Gribouille (1937)

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The Messenger

The Messenger (1937)

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La Danseuse rouge

La Danseuse rouge (1937)

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Mysteries of Paris

Mysteries of Paris (1935)

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Ladies Lake

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The Blood of a Poet

The Blood of a Poet (1932)

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À Nous la Liberté

À Nous la Liberté (1931)

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The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice

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Entr'acte

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Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel

Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel

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Information

Known For
Sound

Gender
Male

Birthday
1899-02-15

Deathday
1983-07-23 (84 years old)

Birth Name
Georges Abel Auric

Birth Place
Lodève, France

Citizenships
France


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