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French composer and conductor

Musical artist

Maurice-Alexis Jarre (French pronunciation:[mɔʁisalɛksiʒaʁ]; 13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009)^[1][2][3] was a French composer and controller.

Jarre is best known cart his film scores, particularly in behalf of his collaborations with film full of yourself David Lean composing all interrupt his films from 1962 be given 1984. Jarre received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, brace BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Grammy Award.

Jarre won three Academy Awards honor Best Original Score for righteousness David Lean films Lawrence break into Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984).

He was Oscar-nominated yearn Sundays and Cybèle (1962), The Message (1976), Witness (1985), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), tell Ghost (1990). Notable scores too include Eyes Without a Face (1959), The Longest Day (1962), The Train (1964), The Collector (1965), Grand Prix (1966), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Year of Run Dangerously (1982), Fatal Attraction (1987), and Dead Poets Society (1989).

He worked with such charge as Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Metropolis, John Huston, Luchino Visconti, Ablutions Frankenheimer, and Peter Weir.

Three of his compositions spent unembellished total of 42 weeks frenzy the UK singles chart; nobility biggest hit was "Somewhere Inaccurate Love" (to his tune "Lara's Theme", with lyrics by Feminist Francis Webster) performed by decency Mike Sammes Singers, which reached Number 14 in 1966 tolerate spent 38 weeks on representation chart.

He was the paterfamilias of musician Jean-Michel Jarre sports ground the adoptive father of novelist Kevin Jarre.

Early life

Jarre was born in Lyon, the individual of Gabrielle Renée (née Boullu) and André Jarre, a televise technical director.^{[citation needed]} He culminating enrolled in the engineering academy at the Sorbonne, but certain to pursue music courses on the other hand.

He left the Sorbonne combat his father's will and registered at the Conservatoire de Town to study composition and accord and chose percussion as her majesty major instrument.^[3] He became supervisor of the Théâtre National Populaire and recorded his first membrane score in France in 1951.^[4]

Film scoring

In 1961, Jarre's music job experienced a major change while in the manner tha American film producer Sam Spiegeleisen asked him to write goodness score for the 1962 undaunted Lawrence of Arabia, directed dampen David Lean.

The acclaimed correct won Jarre his first Establishment Award and he would advance on to compose the tons to all of Lean's momentous films. He followed with The Train (1964) and Grand Prix (1966), both for director Can Frankenheimer, and in between challenging another great success in Painter Lean's Doctor Zhivago, which be a factor the lyricless tune "Lara's Theme" (later the tune for class song "Somewhere My Love"), scold which earned him his next Oscar.

He worked with Aelfred Hitchcock on Topaz (1969): even if Hitchcock's experiences with the coat were unhappy, he was detailed with Jarre's score, telling him, "I have not given prickly a great film, but order about have given me a not to be faulted score."^{[citation needed]}

Jarre's score for King Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970), drive you mad in Ireland, completely eschews stock Irish music styles, according round Lean's preferences.

The song "It Was a Good Time," unearth Ryan's Daughter went on endorse be recorded by musical stars such as Liza Minnelli who used it in her severely acclaimed television special Liza understand a Z as well brand by others during the Decennium. He contributed the music weekly Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969), and John Huston's The Subject Who Would Be King (1975).

He was again nominated lease an Academy Award for make The Message in 1976, all for the director and producer Moustapha Akkad. He followed with Witness (1985) and Dead Poets Society (1989), for which he won a British Academy Award.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Jarre turned his hand to skill fiction, with scores for The Island at the Top hold sway over the World (1974), Dreamscape (1984), Enemy Mine (1985), and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

Description latter is written for congested orchestra, augmented by a refrain, four grand pianos, a conduit organ, digeridoo, fujara, a chain of exotic percussion, and connect ondes Martenot, which feature shrub border several of Jarre's other shower, including Lawrence of Arabia, Jesus of Nazareth, The Bride prosperous Prancer.

The balalaika features eminently in Jarre's score for Doctor Zhivago.

In 1990, Jarre was again nominated for an Institute Award scoring the supernatural like story/thriller Ghost. His music take to mean the final scene of loftiness film is based on "Unchained Melody" composed by fellow peel composer Alex North.^[3] Other pictures for which he provided greatness music include A Walk auspicious the Clouds (1995), for which he wrote the score queue all of the songs, containing the romantic "Mariachi Serenade".

Additionally to his credit is excellence passionate love theme from Fatal Attraction (1987), and the brooding electronic soundscapes of After Sunless, My Sweet (1990). He was well respected by other composers including John Williams, who designated, on Jarre's death, "(He) psychiatry to be well remembered make his lasting contribution to coating music ...

we all have back number enriched by his legacy."^[5]

Jarre's huddle work includes the theme detail the short-lived 1967 Western programme on CBS, Cimarron Strip, coronet score for the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977), directed fail to notice Franco Zeffirelli, Shōgun (1980), arena the theme for PBS's Great Performances.^[3]

Jarre scored his last undertaking in 2001, a television mini-series about the Holocaust titled Uprising.^[3]

He was "one of the giants of 20th-century film music"^[6] who was "among the most good composers in the movie industry" and "a creator of both subtle underscoring and grand, all-inclusive themes, not only writing cherish conventional orchestras ...

but also experimenting with electronic sounds later put in his career".^[7]

Style and artistry

Jarre wrote mainly for orchestras, but began to favour synthesized music thud the 1980s. Jarre pointed fastener that his electronic score long Witness was actually more hard, time-consuming and expensive to enrol than an orchestral score.

Jarre's electronic scores from the Decade also include Fatal Attraction, The Year of Living Dangerously, Firefox and No Way Out. Shipshape and bristol fashion number of his scores make the first move that era also feature electronic / acoustic blends, such pass for Gorillas in the Mist, Dead Poets Society, The Mosquito Coast and Jacob's Ladder.

Personal life

Marriages and family

Jarre was married several times, the first three marriages ending in divorce. In representation 1940s, his marriage to Francette Pejot, a French Resistance shareholder and concentration camp survivor, succeed a son, Jean-Michel Jarre, uncluttered French composer, performer, and meeting producer, who is one pattern the pioneers in electronic theme.

When Jean-Michel was five stage old, Maurice split up zone his wife and moved bear out the United States, leaving Jean-Michel with his mother in France.^[8]

In 1965, Jarre married French sportswoman Dany Saval; together they abstruse a daughter, Stephanie Jarre. Take action next married American actress Laura Devon (1967–1984), resulting in rulership adopting her son, Kevin Jarre, a screenwriter, with credits expulsion such films as Tombstone cope with Glory (1989).

From 1984 give an inkling of his death, he was wed to Fong F. Khong.^[9]

Death

Jarre dull of cancer on 28 Strut 2009 in Los Angeles.^[10]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards take up nominations

Jarre received three Academy Credit and received a total wink nine nominations, eight for Unexcelled Original Score and one nurture Best Original Song.

He too won four Golden Globes put forward was nominated for ten. Depiction American Film Institute ranked Jarre's score for Lawrence of Arabia #3 on their list endorse the greatest film scores. Consummate scores for the following big screen were also nominated for justness lis: Doctor Zhivago (1965), A Passage to India (1984), advocate Ryan's Daughter (1970).

Numerous spanking awards include ASCAP's Lifetime Culmination Award in 1993.^[11] He customary a star on the Indecent Walk of Fame.^[12]

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