Georges Delerue

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Georges Delerue (March 1925 – 20 March 1992) was a French composer who made over 350 scores for cinema and television.

Delerue has received many coveted film music awards, including an Academy Award for A Little Romance (1980), three César Awards (1979, 1980, 1981), and one Gemini Award for Sword of Gideon (1987).

He was also nominated for four additional Academy Awards for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Julia (1977), and Agnes of God (1985), along with four other César Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Genie Award for Black Robe (1991). He was dubbed "the Mozart of cinema" by Le Figaro, a French newspaper. Delerue was the first composer to win three consecutive César Awards for Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1979), Love on the Run (1980), and The Last Metro (1981).

Georges Delerue was named Commander of Arts and Letters, one of France's highest accolades.

Early life and education

Delerue was born in Roubaix, France, on March 12th, 1925, to Georges Delerue and Marie Lhoest. He was born in a musical family; his grandfather was a member of an amateur chorus orchestra, and his mother sang and played piano at family gatherings. He was playing clarinet at the local music conservatory by the age of fourteen. He was forced to leave his Turgot Institute studies in order to work at a factory to help his family. He played clarinet with local bands before transitioning to piano under Madame Picavet-Bacquart's tutelage. He studied Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Chopin, and Grieg, and was particularly inspired by Richard Strauss. Georges wanted to become a composer after a long slumbery after being diagnosed with scoliosis.

Delerue was accepted into the Conservatoire de Paris in 1945, where he worked fugue with Simone Plé-Caussade and composition with Henri Büsser. He worked at dances, baptisms, marriages, and funerals, as well as performing jazz in the piano bars near the Paris Opera.

He received an honorable mention for the Rome Prize in 1947 and the Second Grand Prize in the following year. Scheherazade performed at the Theatre Festival of Avignon, Delerue, the year before. He was awarded the First Second Grand Prize and the First Prize for Composition in 1949 Rome Prize competition. He began writing stage music in the late 1940s, including for the Théâtre National Populaire, Comédie-Française, and Jean-Louis Barrault's company. He also became friends with Maurice Jarre and Pierre Boulez.

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Career

Delerue was composing music for short films and arranging theatrical performances for the Théâtre Babylone and the Opéra Comique by the 1950s. During this period, he began working with Boris Vian on a variety of projects, including theatrical adaptations of The Snow Knight and The Builders of Empire, an oratorio A Regrettable Incident, and a ballet The Barker. He began directing the orchestra of the Club d'Essai for French National Radio and Television in 1952, and Princes du sang his first television drama Princes du sang. Lisieux and The Liberation of Paris, one of Bernard's first compositions for historical spectacles of light and sound, appeared in 1954. He composed his Concert Symphony for Piano and Orchestra in 1955, and his opera The Snow Knight premiered in Nancy on January 31. Le bel âge, 1959, was his first score for a film.

His career was varied, including François Truffaut's films Contempt (Le Mépris) and Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, and Bernardo Bertolucci, besides later working on several Hollywood films, including Oliver Stone's Platoon and Salvador, were among his many film house directors. Ken Russell, who shot a BBC documentary about Delerue entitled Don't Shoot the Composer (1966), was another director Delerue produced for.

He created the score for Flemming Flindt's ballet, Enetime (The Lesson), based on Ionesco's play La Leçon. He dedicated his time, talent, to over 200 feature films, 125 short ones, 70 TV films, and 35 TV serials during his 42 years of service. Diên Biên Phu (1992)'s soundtrack for a war docudrama was one of Pierre Schoendoerffer's late works.

In La nuit americaine and Les deux anglaises et le continent, Delerue made cameo appearances.

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Awards and nominations

• 1969 Academy Award Nomination for Best Original Score (Anne of the Thousand Days)
• 1969 Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Original Score (Anne of the Thousand Days)
• 1970 BAFTA Award Nomination for Film Music (Women in Love)
• 1973 Academy Award Nomination for Best Original Score (The Day of the Dolphin)
• 1973 Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Original Score (The Day of the Dolphin)
• 1977 Academy Award Nomination for Best Original Score (Julia)
• 1977 César Award Nomination for Best Music Written for a Film (Police Python 357)
• 1979 Academy Award for Best Original Score (A Little Romance) Won
• 1979 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) Won
• 1979 Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Original Score (A Little Romance)
• 1979 BAFTA Award Nomination for Film Music (Julia)
• 1980 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film (Love on the Run) Won
• 1981 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film (The Last Metro) Won
• 1983 César Award Nomination for Best Music Written for a Film (La passante du Sans-Souci)
• 1984 César Award Nomination for Best Music Written for a Film (One Deadly Summer)
• 1985 Academy Award Nomination for Best Original Score (Agnes of God)
• 1988 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Film (Twins) Won
• 1990 ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Film (Platoon) Won
• 1991 Genie Award for Best Original Score (Black Robe) Won
• 1992 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Original Music Score (Black Robe) Won
• 1993 César Award Nomination for Best Music Written for a Film (Dien Bien Phu)