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Paris - As a film composer, he worked for legendary directors like John Frankenheimer, Alfred Hitchcock and Luchino Visconti - was equal to three times Maurice Jarre with the most coveted trophy in the world film awards: the Oscar. Now away with the "Doctor Zhivago" suite at the world famous Frenchman came at the age of 84 years in the Sunday night in Los Angeles, as the French media on Monday morning, referring to his management reported. The father of the above all in France famous musician Jean Michel Jarre is regarded as a pioneer of modern film composition, and was at more than 150 international productions involved.
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Film composer Jarre: died at the age of 84 years
Jarre was in his career nine nominated for an Oscar, three times has he won in the sixties for "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago", two decades later for "A Passage to India". The Berlinale honored artists in February for his life's work honored with the Golden Bears. "Film composers are often in the shadow of the great directing and acting stars. When Maurice Jarre is quite different - the music of" Doctor Zhivago ", like many other of his works, is world famous and unforgettable film history," praised him Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick.
Born in 1924 in Lyon, Jarre began his artistic journey with training as a percussionist and conductor at the Paris Conservatory CNSMDP. In 1950 he became musical director of the Théâtre National Populaire invoked. For the orchestra, he composed music for the theater more than 70 pieces.
The early fifties Maurice Jarre gave his debut as a film composer for "The Invalids" by Georges Franju. Until the mid-sixties, mainly in his native France, he then worked mainly in Hollywood. Even for films like "The Tin Drum" after the novel by Günter Grass, and "The club of dead poets", he wrote the melodies.
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