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Maurice Jarre (born in Lyon, France, September 13, 1924) is a French composer and conductor. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean -- Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984). All three of these scores won Academy Awards. is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. ...
Lawrence of Arabia is an award-winning 1962 film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. ...
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ...
A Passage to India is a 1984 film directed by David Lean, based on the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster. ...
BAFTA Award The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
The Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music (or BAFTA Award for Best Film Music) is an annual award given by British Academy of Film and Television Arts. ...
Witness is a 1985 movie released by Paramount Pictures, starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas. ...
Dead Poets Society is an Academy Award winning 1989 film, directed by Peter Weir. ...
The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
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Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ...
A Passage to India is a 1984 film directed by David Lean, based on the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster. ...
A Walk in the Clouds is a 1996 romance film directed by Alfonso Arau and produced by the Zucker brothers. ...
Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...
The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media has been awarded since 1960. ...
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ...
Lyons), see Lyons (disambiguation). ...
is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A composer is a person who writes music. ...
Look up conductor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
A film score is a set of musical compositions written to accompany a film. ...
Sir David Lean, KBE (March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Doctor Zhivago . ...
Lawrence of Arabia is an award-winning 1962 film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. ...
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ...
A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. ...
Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
His other notable scores include The Message (1976), Dead Poets Society (1989) and Ghost (1990). Mohammad, Messenger of God (retitled The Message for U.S. release) (1976) is a movie that chronicles the life and times of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. ...
Dead Poets Society is an Academy Award winning 1989 film, directed by Peter Weir. ...
For other uses, see Ghost (disambiguation). ...
Early life
Jarre started studying music at a late age, unlike many of his fellow musicians. He first enrolled in the engineering school at the Sorbonne. However, he decided to pursue his education in music instead. He left the Sorbonne, against his father's will, and enrolled at Conservatoire de Paris to study composition, harmony and chose percussion as his major instrument. He became the Théâtre National Populaire director, and recorded his first movie score in France in 1951. [1] Inscription over the entrance to the Sorbonne The front of the Sorbonne Building The name Sorbonne (La Sorbonne) is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France or one of its successor institutions (see below), but this is a recent usage, and Sorbonne has actually...
Former Conservatoire building (until 1911), still used as Théâtre du Conservatoire The Conservatoire de Paris (full contemporary name Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) is a music school in Paris, France. ...
Musical composition is: a piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance or recorded track). ...
Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity, and therefore chords, actual or implied, in music. ...
Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ...
Film scoring In 1961 Jarre musical life experienced a major turn when the movie producer Sam Spiegel asked him to write the score of "Lawrence of Arabia" for which he won his first Academy Award .[2] He followed with a great success in Doctor Zhivago, that earned him his second Academy Award. Sam Spiegel (11 November 1901 - 31 December 1985) was a successful independent film producer. ...
Thomas Edward Lawrence (August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935), also known as Lawrence of Arabia, and (apparently, among his Arab allies) Aurens or El Aurens, became famous for his role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Jarre continued making movie scores that earned his several awards and recognition. He scored by Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969), John Huston'sThe Man Who Would Be King (1975). Luchino Visconti. ...
The Damned (Italian: La caduta degli dei, German: Götterdämmerung, i. ...
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ...
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling story of the same title. ...
He was again nominated for an Academy award for scoring The Message 1976 by the director and producer Moustapha Akkad. He followed with Top Secret! (1984), Dead Poets Society (1989) on which he won a British Academy Award and Jacob's Ladder (1990). Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Mohammad, Messenger of God (retitled The Message for U.S. release) (1976) is a movie that chronicles the life and times of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. ...
Moustapha Akkad (left) directs Anthony Quinn on the set of Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) Moustapha Akkad (Arabic: مصطÙÙ‰ العقاد) (July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005) was a Syrian-American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of Halloween films and directing Mohammad, Messenger of God and Lion of...
Top Secret! is a 1984 comedy directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker. ...
Dead Poets Society is an Academy Award winning 1989 film, directed by Peter Weir. ...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
Jacobs Ladder DVD Jacobs Ladder is a 1990 thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne based on a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin. ...
His television work includes the score for the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977), directed by Franco Zeffirelli . Jarre's television work also includes Shogun (1980), and the theme for PBS's Great Performances. Picture of Robert Powell playing Jesus of Nazareth. ...
Franco Zeffirelli (born Gianfranco Corsi on February 12, 1923), is an Italian film director. ...
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Great Performances was a television series devoted to the performing arts which ran on the US television station PBS from 1972. ...
In 1990 Jarre was again nominated for an Academy Award scoring the supernatural love story / thriller Ghost. His music for the final scene of the film is based on "Unchained Melody" composed by fellow film composer Alex North. For other uses, see Ghost (disambiguation). ...
Unchained Melody is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions. ...
Alex North (December 4, 1910 - September 8, 1991) was an American composer responsible for the first jazz based film score (A Streetcar Named Desire) and the first truly modernist film score (Viva Zapata!). Born Isadore Soifer in Chester, Pennsylvania, Alex North was an original composer probably even by the classical...
Other works His other works include the music for Witness, his passionate love theme from Fatal Attraction, and the moody electronic soundscapes of After Dark My Sweet. His score for David Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970), although set in Ireland, completely eschews Irish music styles, owing to Lean's preferences. In the 80s, Jarre turned his hand to science fiction, with scores for Enemy Mine (1985) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). The latter is written for full orchestra, augmented by a chorus, four grand pianos, a pipe organ, digeridoo, fujara, a battery of exotic percussion and three ondes Martenot (which feature in several of Jarre's scores, including Lawrence of Arabia, Jesus of Nazareth and The Bride). Witness is a 1985 movie released by Paramount Pictures, starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas. ...
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. ...
Sir David Lean, KBE (March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Doctor Zhivago . ...
Ryans Daughter is David Leans 1970 film which tells the story of an Irish girl who has an affair with a British soldier during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours. ...
Enemy Mine is a 1985 science fiction film based on the story of the same title by Barry B. Longyear. ...
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a 1985 film, the third installment to the action movie Mad Max. ...
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A grand piano from Schiedmayer & Söhne, Stuttgart. ...
The baroque organ in Roskilde Cathedral, Copenhagen The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by admitting pressurized air (referred to as wind) through a series of pipes. ...
The didgeridoo (or didjeridu) is a unique wind instrument of the Australian Aborigines of northern Australia. ...
Fujara is a huge folk shepherds fipple flute of unique design, originating from Slovakia. ...
Ondes martenot demonstrated by inventor Maurice Martenot The Ondes Martenot (or Ondes-Martenot or Ondes martenot or Ondium Martenot or Martenot or ondes musicale) is an early electronic musical instrument with a keyboard and slide invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot, and originally very similar in sound to the Theremin. ...
Lawrence of Arabia is an award-winning 1962 film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. ...
Picture of Robert Powell playing Jesus of Nazareth. ...
Now officially retired, Jarre scored his last film in 2001, a TV movie about the Holocaust entitled Uprising. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ...
DVD Cover Uprising is a 2001 war/drama television movie about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ...
Music Style Jarre wrote mainly for orchestras, but began to favor to synthesized music in the 1980s, mostly for practical rather than aesthetic motivations, many critics feel.[citation needed] Jarre denies this and has pointed out that his electronic score for Witness was actually more laborious, time-consuming and expensive to produce than an orchestral score. Jarre's electronic scores from the 80s also include Fatal Attraction, The Year of Living Dangerously and No Way Out. A number of his scores from that era also feature electronic/acoustic blends, such as Gorillas in the Mist, Dead Poets Society and Jacob's Ladder. For the song titled Orchestra, see The Servant (band). ...
For other uses, see Synthesizer (disambiguation). ...
The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...
Witness is a 1985 movie released by Paramount Pictures, starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas. ...
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. ...
The Year of Living Dangerously is a novel by Christopher Koch, which was made into a film in 1982, directed by Peter Weir and written by Koch, Weir, and David Williamson. ...
No Way Out is a 1987 government thriller about a U.S. Naval Officer wrongly accused of murder. ...
A film from 1988 based on the autobiographical book by Dian Fossey. ...
Dead Poets Society is an Academy Award winning 1989 film, directed by Peter Weir. ...
Jacobs Ladder DVD Jacobs Ladder is a 1990 thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne based on a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin. ...
His most famous works till the day include the broad unique Lawrence of Arabia and the Russian-flavoured "Lara's Theme" from Doctor Zhivago. Lawrence of Arabia is an award-winning 1962 film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. ...
Laras Theme is the generic name given to a recurring musical cue written for the film Doctor Zhivago (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre. ...
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ...
Private Life Maurice married three times, and is still married to American-born Actress Laura Devoun.
He is the father of Jean Michel Jarre, a French composer who is one of the pioneers in the electronic music field. His youngest son Kevin is a screenwriter, with credits on such movies as Tombstone and Glory. Jean-Michel André Jarre (born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France) is a French composer, performer and music producer. ...
Kevin Jarre is a Hollywood screenwriter, son of the French composer Maurice Jarre, and half-brother to Jean-Michel Jarre. ...
Tombstone is the name of a 1993 Western movie written by Kevin Jarre and directed by George P. Cosmatos. ...
Glory is a 1989 film which follows the history of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the American Civil War. ...
Triva He has a star in Hollywood since 2001. [3]
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards He has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, and has won three: Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
- Nominated for Best Music, Original Score for: Ghost
- Nominated for Best Music, Original Score for: Gorillas in the Mist
- Nominated for Best Music, Original Score for: Witness
- Won the 1984 Academy Award for Original Music Score for the film A Passage to India
- Nominated for Best Music, Original Score for: The Message
- Nominated for Best Music, Song for: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean for the song "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey"
- Won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Music, Score - Substantially Original for: Doctor Zhivago
- Nominated for Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment for: Les Dimanches de ville d'Avray
- Won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Music, Score - Substantially Original for: Lawrence of Arabia
For other uses, see Ghost (disambiguation). ...
A film from 1988 based on the autobiographical book by Dian Fossey. ...
Witness is a 1985 movie released by Paramount Pictures, starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas. ...
The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. ...
A Passage to India is a 1984 film directed by David Lean, based on the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster. ...
Mohammad, Messenger of God (retitled The Message for U.S. release) (1976) is a movie that chronicles the life and times of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. ...
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean is a 1972 western movie written by John Milius, directed by John Huston, and starring Paul Newman (at the height of his career, between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting). ...
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ...
Lawrence of Arabia is an award-winning 1962 film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. ...
Grammy Award Jarre won the 1967 Grammy Award for Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special for Doctor Zhivago. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ...
Other awards Dead Poets Society is an Academy Award winning 1989 film, directed by Peter Weir. ...
A Walk in the Clouds is a 1996 romance film directed by Alfonso Arau and produced by the Zucker brothers. ...
References - NYTimes filmography
- Filmography, soundtrack reviews, capsule biography
- Maurice Jarre at the Internet Movie Database
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