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Georges Delerue

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1925 - 1992

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The filmcomposer Georges Delerue was a modest artist all his life whose musical works distinguish by dreamlike sure atmosphreic quality. He displayed an exceptional flair when a movie called for a specific mood or to contrast or to create a feeling for the time of the story.

He began his music education at the conservatory in 1941. In the morniing he workes with his father in a factory, in the afternoon he hurried to school.
At the age of 19 he published his first composition. In order to finance his study he played piano in bars, dancing halls, theaters and even at funerals.

In 1952 followed his first work for television and in 1957 he realised his first opera "Le chevalier de neige" together with Boris Vian.

The name Georges Delerue became a concept for the film business from 1955. He attracted huge attention with his waltz for „Hiroshima mon amour“ (59) at the latest. 

With his composition to „Tirez sur le pianiste - Schiessen Sie auf den Pianisten“ (60) he met director Francois Truffaut and they formed one of the most successful pair director/composer of film history. They realised the movies „Jules und Jim“ (61) with a bittersweet music by Delerue, „L'amour à vignt ans: Antoine et Colette - Liebe mit Zwanzig“ (62), „La peau douce“ (64), „Les deux anglaises et le continent“ (71), „La nuit américaine - Die amerikanische Nacht“ (73), „L‘amour en fuite“ (79), „Le dernier métro - Die letzte Metro“ (80), „La femme d'à côté“ (81) and „Vivement dimanche! (83).

It began a very intensive time from the 60's where Georges Delerue committed countless filmcomposition to paper. To his well-known movies of the 60's belong "Les yeux de l'amour" (60), "L'affaire Nina B." (61), "Cartouche" (62), "L'homme de Rio" (64), "Cent mille dollars au soleil" (64), "Mata-Hari" (64), "Viva Maria" (65), "A Man for All Seasons" (66) and "Anna of the Thousand Days" (69).

The fullness of his work continued in the 70's. Georges Delerue contributed his music to popular productions like "Heureux qui comme Ulysse" (70), "Malpertuis" (71), "The Day of the Jackal" (73), "La gifle" (74), "Le jeu du solitaire" (76), "Julia" (77), "A Little Romance" (79) - for which he was awarded with an Oscar - and "An Almost Perfect Affair" (79).

Like in the decades before he continued his career in the 80's smoothly, it followed more often compositions for American movies.
To his last works belong "Willie and Phil" (80), "La chute de la maison Usher" (81), "La passante du Sans-Souci - Die Spaziergängerin von Sans-Souci" (82), "Silkwood" (83), "Silence of the Heart" (84), "Agnes of God" (85), "Maxie" (85), "Salvador" (86), "Platoon" (86), "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" (87), "Biloxi Blues" (88), "Twins" (88), "Her Alibi" (89), "Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland" (89), "Steel Magnolias" (89), "Mister Johnson" (90), "Curly Sue" (91) and "Memento Mori" (92).

Georges Delerue was nominated for four other Oscars besides the one he won in his impressive career, on the other hand he was nominated for a total of seven César and won three of them.

He wasn't very demanding to the world, his imagination of relaxation was to be alone with his wife Colette, to make music with his two daughters, to work in the garden, to listen to operas, to read biographhies of other famous composers or to eat with friends. But with this his life became capacity.
 

Other movies from Georges Delerue: 
Le mystère du quai de Conti (50) Ingénieurs de la mer (51) Les techniciens en pompons rouges (52) Princes du sang (52) L'aventure et ses Terras-Nuevas (52) Le largage à six heures du matin (53) Berre, cité du pétrole (53) Regards sur l'Indochine (54) Première croisière (54) Madagascar (54) La grande cité d'Angkor (54) Au rythme du siècle (54) Au pays de Guillaume le Conquérant (54) Ames d'argile (55) Tu enfanteras sans douleur (56) Sur l'Arroyo (56) La rue chinoise (56) Marche française (56) La nuit des rois (57) Un amour de poche (57) Les marines (57) Le corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur (57) Les surmenés (58) La première nuit (58) L'opéra mouffe (58) La mer et les jours (58) Du côté de la côte (58) Macbeth (59) Le montreur d'0mbres (59) Images pour Baudelaire (59) Images des mondes perdus (59) Fleuve invisible (59) Escale (59) Entre la terre et le ciel (59) Le bel âge (59) Une fille pour l'été (60) Classe tous risques (60) Marche ou crève (60) La française et l'amour: La femme seule" (60) Une question d'assurance (60) La récréation (60) La morte saison des amours (60) Merci Natercia! (60) Le farceur (60) Arrêtez les tambours (60) L'amour existe (60) L'amant de cinq jours (61) La mort de Belle (61) Une aussi longue absence (61) Par-dessus le mur (61) La reine morte (61) Sahara an IV (61) Le petit garçon de l'ascenseur (62) Le crime ne paie pas (62) La dénonciation (62) Le Monte-Charge (62) Vive le tour (62) Un coeur gros comme ça (62) Du rififi à Tokyo (62) Le cousin de Callao (62) Le bureau des mariages (62) L'abominable homme des douanes (63) L'immortelle (63) L'honorable Stanislas, agent secret (63) L'aîné des Ferchaux (63) Lektionen (63) Le mépris (63) Vacances portugaises (63) Nunca pasa nada (63) Hitler, connais pas (63) La contrebasse (63) Chair de poule (63) L'autre femme (63) Du grabuge chez les veuves (64) French Dressing (64) Des pissenlits par la racine (64) The Pumpkin Eater (64) L'insoumis (64) Lâge ingrat (64) Lucky Jo (64) Laissez tirer les tireurs (64) Eves futures (64) L'amour à la chaine (64) Le corniaud (65) Los pianos mecanicos - Die Versuchung heisst Jenny (65) Rapture (65) Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine (65) Les rideaux blancs - Der Augenblick des Friedens (65) Pleins feux sur Stanislas - Rendezvous mit einem Killer (65) Gaspard des montagnes (65) Un monsieur de compagnie (65) Mona, l'étoile sans nom (65) Le bestiaire d'amour (65) "A" (65) Don't Shoot the Composer (66) Le roi de coeur (66) La vingt-cinqui!me heure (67) Le vieil homme et l'enfant (67) Our Mother's House (67) Oscar (67) Le violon de Crémone (67) Jeudi on chantera comme dimanche (67) La dimance de la vie (67) Interlude (68) Nobody Runs Forever (68) Serie "Thibaud" (68) La petite vertu (68) Les cracks (68) Le cerveau (69) Le diable par la queue (69) Hibernatus (69) Women in Love (69) Serie "Jacquou le croquant" (69) A Walk with Love and Death (69) Les gommes (69) Il conformista (70) Serie "Mauregard" (70) Les caprices de Marie (70) Un otage (70) Promise at Dawn (70) Serie "Les cousins de la Constance" (70) Lancelot du lac (70) Au verre de l'amitié (70) Crime et châtiment (71) Comptes à rebours (71) Serie "Une autre vie" (71) Mira (71) Yvette (71) Serie "Adieu mes quinze ans" (71) Les aveux les plus doux (71) The Horsemen (71) L'ingénu (72) Chère Louise (72) Serie "L'homme qui revient de loin" (72) Une belle fille comme moi (72) Quelque part quelqu'un (72) Serie "Les rois maudits" (72) L'éducation sentimentale" (73) Serie "Là-haute, les quatre saisons" (73) Love Comes Quietly (73) Serie "Molière pour rire et pour pleurer" (73) The Day of the Dolphin (73) Alien Thunder (74) Entre toutes les femmes (74) La femme de Jean (74) Serie "Paul et Virginie" (74) L'important c'est d'aimer (75) Serie "Paul Gauguin" (75) Pourquoi la robe d'Anna ne veut pas redescendre (75) Serie "Les compagnons d'Eleusis" (75) L'incorrigible - Der Unverbesserliche (75) Calmos (76) Oublie-moi-Mandoline (76) Jamais plus toujours (76) Police Python 357 (76) Comme un boomerang (76) Le grand escogriffe (76) Julie pot de colle (77) Serie "Bergeval père et fils" (77) Le naufrage de Monte-Cristo (77) Le point de mire (77) Le chandelier (77) Serie "Banlieue Sud-Est" (77) Serie "Madame le juge: Autopsie d'un témoignage (77) Préparez vos mouchoirs (78) Tendre poulet (78) Va voir maman, papa travaile (78) Photo-souvenir (78) Histoires de voyous: La saison des voleurs (78) Histoires de voyous: Le casse des rois mages (78) La petite fille en velours (78) Simone de Beauvoir (79) Le cavaleur (79) Pierrot mon ami (79) Pourquoi Patricia? (79) Mijn vriend (79) Serie "Le jeune homme vert" (79) Le mouton noir (79) Le cadran solaire (79) Histoires de voyous: Le concierge reviert tout de suite (79) Serie "Joséphine ou la comédie des ambitions" (79) Barbe bleue (79) Premier voyage (80) Serie "Les visiteurs" (80) Richard's Things (80) Serie "Fantômas" (80) Serie "Les chevaux du soleil" (80) Lundi (80) Serie "Le mythomane" (81) Serie "Nana" (81) Documenteur (81) La vie continue (81) Rich and Famous (81) Garde à vue (81) True Confessions (81) Serie "The Borgias" (81) L'oiseau bleu (81) Broken English (81) Josepha (82) A Little Sex (82) Guy de Maupassant (82) Partners - Zwei irre Typen auf heisser Spur (82) The Escape Artist (82) L'africain (83) The Black Stallion Returns (83) Exposed (83) L'été meurtrier (83) Liberty belle (83) Man, Woman and Child (83) Le bon plaisir (84) Mademoiselle Julie (84) Femmes de personne (84) Les morfalous (84) Love Thy Neighbor (84) Qualcosa di biondo (84) The Execution (85) Deadly Intentions (85) Arch of Triumph (85) Carné, l'homme à la caméra (85) Amos (85) Serie "Amazing Stories: Dorothy and Ben" (85) Serie "Amazing Stories: The Doll" (85) Serie "Amazing Stories: Without Diana" (85) A Time to Live (85) Stone Pillow (85) Conseil de famille (86) Sin of Innocence (86) Descente aux enfers (86) Touch and Go (86) Crimes of the Heart (86) Women of Valor (86) Sword of Gideon (86) Mesmerized (86) Her Secret Life (87) Escape from Sobibor (87) Un homme amoureux (87) Queenie (87) Maid to Order (87) The Pick-up Artist (87) Chouans! (88) The House on Carroll Street (88) To Kill a Priest (88) Memories of Me (88) Heartbreak Hotel (88) Beaches (88) A Summer Story (88) Paris by Night (88) Der Atem (89) La révolution française (89) Joe Versus the Volcano (90) Serie "Les cadavres eyquis de Patricia Highsmith" (90) A Show of Force (90) Cadence (90) The Josephine Baker Story (91) La reine blanche (91) Without Warning: The James Brady Story (91) Black Robe (91) American Friends (91) Serie "Tours du Monde, Tours du Ciel" (91) Diên Biên Phu (92) Man Trouble (92) 


 
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