Georges Auric

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1899-02-15

Deathday 1983-07-23 (84 years old)

Place of Birth Lodève, Hérault, France

Georges Auric

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. ... Source: Article "Georges Auric" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Sound

1969
The Christmas Tree

as Original Music Composer

1968
Therese and Isabelle

as Original Music Composer

1966
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

as Original Music Composer

1966
1966
The Poppy Is Also a Flower

as Original Music Composer

1965
Thomas the Impostor

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Mind Benders

as Original Music Composer

1962
The Burning Court

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Innocents

as Music

1961
Midnight Meeting

as Original Music Composer

1961
Bridge to the Sun

as Original Music Composer

1961
Goodbye Again

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Journey

as Music

1959
SOS Pacific

as Music

1958
Bonjour Tristesse

as Original Music Composer

1958
Christine

as Original Music Composer

1958
1958
The Night Heaven Fell

as Original Music Composer

1957
The Witches of Salem

as Original Music Composer

1957
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

as Original Music Composer

1957
1956
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Original Music Composer

1956
Gervaise

as Original Music Composer

1956
1955
Rififi

as Original Music Composer

1955
1955
Chéri-Bibi

as Music

1955
Lola Montès

as Original Music Composer

1954
The Good Die Young

as Original Music Composer

1954
1954
Father Brown

as Original Music Composer

1954
The Divided Heart

as Original Music Composer

1953
The Wages of Fear

as Original Music Composer

1953
Roman Holiday

as Original Music Composer

1953
The Slave

as Music

1953
The Wages of Fear

as Music Director

1953
The Titfield Thunderbolt

as Original Music Composer

1952
Moulin Rouge

as Original Music Composer

1952
Leathernose

as Original Music Composer

1952
The Respectful Prostitute

as Original Music Composer

1951
The Galloping Major

as Original Music Composer

1951
Dear Caroline

as Music

1950
Orpheus

as Original Music Composer

1950
The Century Is Fifty

as Original Music Composer

1950
Cage of Gold

as Original Music Composer

1949
Silent Dust

as Music

1949
Maya

as Original Music Composer

1949
Passport to Pimlico

as Original Music Composer

1949
The Queen of Spades

as Original Music Composer

1949
The Spider and the Fly

as Original Music Composer

1948
Another Shore

as Music

1948
Corridor of Mirrors

as Original Music Composer

1948
The Storm Within

as Original Music Composer

1948
1947
It Always Rains on Sunday

as Original Music Composer

1947
Hue and Cry

as Music

1947
1946
Beauty and the Beast

as Original Music Composer

1945
Dead of Night

as Original Music Composer

1945
Caesar and Cleopatra

as Original Music Composer

1943
1942
Gambling Hell

as Original Music Composer

1942
L'assassin a peur la nuit

as Original Music Composer

1940
La Mode rêvée

as Original Music Composer

1938
Orage

as Music

1938
The Curtain Rises

as Original Music Composer

1938
The Lafarge Case

as Original Music Composer

1937
The Messenger

as Music

1935
Mysteries of Paris

as Music Director

1934
Ladies Lake

as Original Music Composer

1932
The Blood of a Poet

as Original Music Composer

1931
À Nous la Liberté

as Original Music Composer

Actor

1959
Discorama

as Self

1929
1924
Entr'acte

as A man following the hearse (uncredited)