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 (1978)
The Christmas Tree (1969)
Therese and Isabelle (1968)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966)
L'Âge heureux (1966)
La Sentinelle endormie (1966)
Public School (1965)
Thomas the Impostor (1965)
The Mind Benders (1963)
Bells Without Joy (1962)
The Burning Court (1962)
The Innocents (1961)
The Crumblers Are Doing Well (1961)
Bridge to the Sun (1961)
Goodbye Again (1961)
Princess of Cleves (1961)
Le Rendez-vous de minuit (1961)
Schlussakkord (1960)
Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion (1960)
SOS Pacific (1959)
The Journey (1959)
Discorama (1959)
Christine (1958)
Next to No Time (1958)
The Night Heaven Fell (1958)
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Dangerous Exile (1957)
The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
The Spies (1957)
Walk Into Paradise (1957)
He Who Must Die (1957)
The Witches of Salem (1957)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
Bold Adventure (1956)
Gervaise (1956)
The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
Lola Montès (1955)
The Hussars (1955)
The Bespoke Overcoat (1955)
Nagana (1955)
Chéri-Bibi (1955)
Rififi (1955)
Abdullah's Harem (1955)
The Divided Heart (1954)
Father Brown (1954)
Flesh and Desire (1954)
The Good Die Young (1954)
The Slave (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
The Respectful Prostitute (1952)
Leathernose (1952)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Lovers of Bras-Mort (1951)
The Galloping Major (1951)
Dear Caroline (1951)
Cage of Gold (1950)
Orpheus (1950)
The Century Is Fifty (1950)
Maya (1949)
The Spider and the Fly (1949)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
The Queen of Spades (1949)
Silent Dust (1949)
Daughter of the Sands (1949)
The Storm Within (1948)
Another Shore (1948)
In the Eyes of Memory (1948)
The Eagle with Two Heads (1948)
Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
The Queen's Lover (1948)
Torrents (1947)
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
The Seventh Door (1947)
La Rose et le réséda (1947)
The Chips Are Down (1947)
Hue and Cry (1947)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Pastoral Symphony (1946)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Blind Desire (1945)
Dead of Night (1945)
François Villon (1945)
Farandole (1945)
The Eternal Return (1943)
Little Nothings (1942)
Midnight in Paris (1942)
L'assassin a peur la nuit (1942)
Gambling Hell (1942)
Opéra-musette (1942)
La Mode rêvée (1940)
His Uncle from Normandy (1939)
The Curtain Rises (1938)
Orage (1938)
Street Without Joy (1938)
The Lafarge Case (1938)
Tamara la complaisante (1938)
Alibi (1937)
A Picnic on the Grass (1937)
Gribouille (1937)
The Messenger (1937)
La Danseuse rouge (1937)
Mysteries of Paris (1935)
Ladies Lake (1934)
The Blood of a Poet (1932)
À Nous la Liberté (1931)
The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice (1929)
Entr'acte (1924)
Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel
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GenderMale
Birthday1899-02-15
Deathday1983-07-23 (84 years old)
Birth NameGeorges Abel Auric
Birth PlaceLodève, France
CitizenshipsFrance
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