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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.
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.
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.
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...
Summary. T he International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies held its annual meeting in Budapest in 1971. France was represented by Georges Auric. I felt a tremendous thrill on hearing the news that a member of Les Six, that legendary group of French composers, was in Budapest.
Although he composed more than 120 film scores during his career, Georges Auric (1899–1983) did not compose his first until well after his thirtieth birthday. However, as a disciple of Guillaume Apollinaire's esprit nouveau he was interested in the genre much earlier.
Georges Auric (born Lodève, France, 15 February 1899; died Paris 23 July 1983) was a French composer. He was one of the six composers who became known as Les Six. Childhood. Auric was a child prodigy. He composed a lot of music from the age of 10, but most of these early works he destroyed later. He grew up in Montpellier.
