Maurice Jarre |
Maurice jarre
Date of birth
13.09.1924
Date of death
28.03.2009
Profession
composer
Country
France
Born September 13, 1924 in Lyon. French composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory (with L. Aubert and A. Honegger). In the 1950s worked at the Comedie-Française and was the musical director of the National People’s Theatre.
He is the author of music for dramatic performances and films, orchestral compositions; the opera-ballet Armida (1954), the ballets Masks of Women (1951), Pesky Encounters (1958), The Murdered Poet (1958), Maldorf (1962), Notre Dame Cathedral (1965) , “Aor” (1971), “In honor of Isadora” (1977).
The most popular ballet is Notre Dame Cathedral, which was staged by the troupe of the Paris Opera (season 1969/70) and the Marseille Ballet (1974), as well as at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg in 1978.
