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Maurice Jarre

1924 - 2009

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Maurice-Alexis Jarre (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis alɛksi ʒaʁ]; 13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor. Jarre is best known for his film scores, particularly for his collaborations with film director David Lean, composing the scores to all of his films from 1962 to 1984. Jarre received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Grammy Award. Jarre won three Academy Awards for Best Original Score for the David Lean films Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Jarre is the 126th most popular composer (up from 130th in 2019), the 523rd most popular biography from France (up from 583rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Composer.

Maurice Jarre is most famous for his work on the soundtrack for the film Lawrence of Arabia.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Maurice Jarre ranks 126 out of 1,451. Before him are Emmerich Kálmán, Giulio Caccini, Max Bruch, Adolphe Adam, Edgard Varèse, and Carl Nielsen. After him are Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Anton Rubinstein, Josef Strauss, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Benjamin Britten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Maurice Jarre ranks 18. Before him are Eli Cohen, James Black, Süleyman Demirel, Khamtai Siphandon, Jean-François Lyotard, and Benoit Mandelbrot. After him are Sarah Vaughan, Georges Charpak, Lauren Bacall, Roger Guillemin, Jacques Le Goff, and Sergei Parajanov. Among people deceased in 2009, Maurice Jarre ranks 11. Before him are Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Aage Bohr, Millvina Dean, and Paul Samuelson. After him are Pina Bausch, Corazon Aquino, Jean Dausset, David Carradine, Sydney Chaplin, and Abdurrahman Wahid.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Jarre ranks 523 out of 6,770. Before him are Edgard Varèse (1883), Georges Bataille (1897), Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), Joseph Black (1728), Théodore Rousseau (1812), and Joan I of Navarre (1273). After him are Suger (1080), Lothair of France (941), Pauline Bonaparte (1780), Charles Richet (1850), Francis, Duke of Guise (1519), and André Citroën (1878).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Maurice Jarre ranks 22. Before him are Pierre Boulez (1925), Francis Poulenc (1899), Arthur Honegger (1892), Léo Delibes (1836), Adolphe Adam (1803), and Edgard Varèse (1883). After him are Daniel Auber (1782), Édouard Lalo (1823), Pérotin (1160), Darius Milhaud (1892), Paul Dukas (1865), and Marin Marais (1656).

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