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Georges Auric (French:; 15 February 1899 – 23 July 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, France. [1] He was considered one of Les Six, a group of artists informally associated with Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie. [2] Before he turned 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for several ballets and stage productions.
Georges Auric (born Feb. 15, 1899, Lodève, France—died July 24, 1983, Paris) was a French composer best known for his film scores and ballets. In these and other works, he was among those who reacted against the chromatic harmonic language and Symbolist structures of Claude Debussy.
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.
Apr 16, 2020 · University of Kansas researcher Colin Roust’s new biography, “Georges Auric: A Life in Music and Politics” (Oxford University Press, 2020) is an attempt to set the record straight. It is the first full-length book on Auric.
May 21, 2018 · Composer of some of the most delightfully whimsical motion picture scores in history, Georges Auric also had the added distinction of having written the first original score for a feature film: his music for Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet (1930). Auric's quirky classicism is displayed in more than 75 scores from 1930 to 1969.
Jan 27, 2022 · After Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, and Germaine Tailleferre, Georges Auric is arguably the fifth most famous member of the group Les Six. Only Louis Durey, about whom much still remains to be uncovered, has fared worse in terms of public visibility, even in his native France.
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.
The first English-language biography of Auric, Georges Auric: A Life in Music and Politics rethinks the conventional ideas of what it means to be a composer. Drawing from an astonishing three...
Georges Auric - Trois Impromptus for piano (with score) Composed by Georges Auric (1899-1983)Recorded by Françoise Gobet (piano)00:00 - I. Impromptu en Ut majeur (Assez vif)02:22 - II....
Georges Auric (1899-1983), born on 15 February 1899 in Lodève, France, was famously included in the group called Les Six by critic Henri Collet in 1920. As a composer, he is probably best known for his ballet and film scores, remaining the only person to have won music prizes at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals.
