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Maurice Jarre Biography

Maurice-Alexis Jarre (French: [ʒaʁ]; 13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor, "one of the giants of 20th-century film music" who was "among the most sought-after composers in the movie industry" and "a creator of both subtle underscoring and grand, sweeping themes, not only writing for conventional orchestras... but also experimenting with electronic sounds later in his career".

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In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Long, Lost, Men, Sequence, Stay Strong, Work

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

Daughter, Eight, Mother, Total, Used

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

Favourite, India, Movie, Passages

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

Eligible, Lucky, Mozart, Year, Years

My parents did not have any interest in music.

Interest, Music, Parent, Parents

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

Adventure, Frustration, Kings, Protagonists, Surrounding, Travel

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

Assuming, Film, Masterpiece, Music, Thinking, Usual

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Bitterness, Favorite, Fighting, Littles, Replace, Torn

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

Interesting, National, Theatre, Twelve, Years

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

Concerned, Know, Knows, Nothing, World

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Hour, Kind, Littles, Theme, Writing