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May 21, 2020 · Although Georges Auric (1899–1983) is best remembered today for his affiliation with the Groupe des Six, his musical career was long, productive, complex, and intimately attuned to the realities of modern life. His polyvalent career—as a composer of concert, theatrical, ballet, popular, film, and television music; music critic; opera ...
Introduction. Georges Auric left behind a complicated story. He was a quintessentially Parisian artist, whose identity was far more deeply invested in the volcanic heart of France, the Puy-de-Dome, and, especially, the verdant mountains and coastal plains of the Midi. A fine pianist and gifted composer, he was also a sharp, intellectual critic ...
Jun 24, 2018 · More than the other members of the group of French composers known as Les Six, Georges Auric made his mark as a composer of incidental and dramatic music. Hi...
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Georges Auric. proceeds in roughly chrono-logical order, considering the composer’s early years, status as a child prodigy, encounters with Cocteau and the Les Six orbit, substantial work as a film and stage composer, and later administrative duties, which became a second career. Drawing on a plethora of primary and secondary
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Georges and Marcel were scions to a family of hotel-restaurant owners, a career path that Marcel would follow. 6 Close Their great-grandfather, Antoine Auric père, ran a hotel-restaurant in Montélimar during at least the 1840s and 1850s. After the dissolution of the July Monarchy, he joined the ranks of those seeking to establish the Second Republic and to combat the influence of the Républicains Montagnards and the Démocrates Socialistes.
1. Georges Auric, Quand j’étais là (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1979), 219.1. For the locations of Lodève and Montpellier, see Appendix 1, which is a map that featu
