Georges Auric

As a young student of at the Paris Conservatory in 1920 , and, considered '' Avant-garde '', Auric became part of Satie and Cocteau’s famous group, Les Six . His participation led to writing settings of poetry and other texts as songs and musicals.

When Jean Cocteau started making motion pictures, at the beginning of the 1930s Auric began writing film scores. He wrote soundtracks for a number of French and British films, and his success led to writing the music for Hollywood movies, too. Several times, Auric’s work made it onto the Hit Parade , notably '' The Song From Moulin Rouge ''.

The many films that he scored included Jean Cocteau 's '' Beauty And The Beast '' ( 1946 ), '' Passport To Pimlico '' ( 1948 ), '' The Lavender Hill Mob '' ( 1951 ), '' Moulin Rouge '' ( 1952 ), '' Roman Holiday '' ( 1953 ), '' Le Salaire De La Peur '' ( 1953 ), '' Lola Montes '' (1955), '' Rififi '' ( 1956 ), '' Notre-Dame De Paris '' (1956), '' Bonjour Tristesse '' ( 1958 ), '' The Night Heaven Fell '' ( 1958 ), '' Goodbye Again '' ( 1961 ), and ''Therese and Isabelle'' ( 1968 ).

In 1962 he gave up writing for motion pictures when he became director of the Opéra National De Paris and then chairman of SACEM, the French Performing Rights Society. Auric continued to write classical chamber music, especially for winds, right up to his death.

Auric was interred in the Cimetière Du Montparnasse , Paris .

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