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His career was diverse and he composed frequently for major [[avant-garde]] [[film director|director]]s, most often [[François Truffaut]], but also for [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s film ''[[Contempt (film)|Contempt]]'', and for [[Alain Resnais]], [[Louis Malle]], and [[Bernardo Bertolucci]], besides working on several [[Hollywood]] productions. |
His career was diverse and he composed frequently for major [[avant-garde]] [[film director|director]]s, most often [[François Truffaut]], but also for [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s film ''[[Contempt (film)|Contempt]]'', and for [[Alain Resnais]], [[Louis Malle]], and [[Bernardo Bertolucci]], besides working on several [[Hollywood]] productions. |
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He composed the music for Flemming Flindt's ballet, Enetime (The Lesson), based on |
He composed the music for Flemming Flindt's ballet, Enetime (The Lesson), based on Ionesco's play, La Lecon. |
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A heart attack struck him in 1992 at the age of 67, just after the recording of the last cue for the soundtrack to ''Rich in Love''. Georges Delerue was extraordinarily gifted for melody and at creating surrounding overtones which encapsulated the spirit of the movies for which he collaborated, enhancing them often beyond the expectations of their directors. |
A heart attack struck him in 1992 at the age of 67, just after the recording of the last cue for the soundtrack to ''Rich in Love''. Georges Delerue was extraordinarily gifted for melody and at creating surrounding overtones which encapsulated the spirit of the movies for which he collaborated, enhancing them often beyond the expectations of their directors. |
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Revision as of 17:47, 6 April 2006
Georges Delerue (1925 - 1992) was a renowned French film composer who worked on over 300 films. He won an Academy Award for Original Music Score in 1979 (for A Little Romance) and was nominated four other times.
He was born in Roubaix, France and died of a heart attack on 20 March, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
His career was diverse and he composed frequently for major avant-garde directors, most often François Truffaut, but also for Jean-Luc Godard's film Contempt, and for Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, and Bernardo Bertolucci, besides working on several Hollywood productions.
He composed the music for Flemming Flindt's ballet, Enetime (The Lesson), based on Ionesco's play, La Lecon.
A heart attack struck him in 1992 at the age of 67, just after the recording of the last cue for the soundtrack to Rich in Love. Georges Delerue was extraordinarily gifted for melody and at creating surrounding overtones which encapsulated the spirit of the movies for which he collaborated, enhancing them often beyond the expectations of their directors.
During his 42 year career he put his talents to the service of nearly 200 feature movies, 125 short ones, 70 TV films and 35 TV serials. According to many testimonies he would do and redo some cues to fit the new editing of a sequence without any protestation. He insisted to be allowed to orchestrate and conduct himself in order to polish every detail.