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Georges Delerue

I can hardly distinguish between music and my life

About Me

« I can hardly distinguish between music and my life. That would be a kind of guaranteed suicide. Music provides everything: the possibility of escape, of discovering the generosity of others and discovering our own. In a foreign country, even without speaking the language, musicians understand each other. It is an extraordinary means of communicating. »(La Voix du Nord, March 25, 1975)« One of the great joys of composing for films is that the composer can hear his music produced almost immediately. I have written symphonic pieces that have grown dusty in drawers for the last ten years. Nothing is more frustrating for an orchestral composer than not to hear his music played! When you compose a film score, the ink of the notes is hardly dry before you're conducting it, which accounts for the rapid progress one can make in orchestrating technique. As the composer listens to his music, he corrects it right away. »(Notes for the Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers of Music, January, 1992)« I'm a lot more happy than I am anguished. But there must be something in me that is anguished and that I can't identify, because I am often told that I write very nostalgic music. "Oh, that Delerue nostalgia, it's well known." Well, I suppose so, but that isn't really me. Or it's something that really is me, that I am not conscious of, and that others can recognize. »(Film Music : Georges Delerue, a documentary by Jean-Louis Comolli, 1994)

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Member Since: 6/27/2006
Band Website: georges-delerue.com
Influences: Jean-Luc GODARD, François TRUFFAUT, Claude SAUTET, Henri COLPI, Jacques DERAY, Jean-Pierre MELVILLE, Andrzej ZULAWSKI, Jacques DONIOL-VALCROZE, Philippe de BROCA, Henri VERNEUIL, Claude PINOTEAU, Bertrand BLIER, Claude BERRI, Jean HERMAN, Mike NICHOLS, John HUSTON , Ken RUSSEL, Jack CLAYTON , John GUILLERMIN , George ROY HILL, Fred ZINNEMANN...ANTOINE ET COLETTE - 1962LE MEPRIS - 1963LA PEAU DOUCE - 1964DAY FOR NIGHT (LA NUIT AMERICAINE) - 1973L'IMPORTANT C'EST D'AIMER - 1974L'INCORRIGIBLE - 1975POLICE PYTHON 357 - 1976LA FEMME D'A COTE - 1981Among many others... En plein Cirage (1962) L'ainé des Ferchaux (1962) Du grabuge chez les veuves (1963) Hitler, connais pas (1963) Le journal d'un fou (1963) Le Mépris (1963) L'honorable stanislas, agent secret (1963) La peau douce (1963) L'âge ingrat (1964) Le gros coup (1964) Cent mille dollars au soleil (1964) Le corniaud (1964) L'insoumis (1964) Un monsieur de compagnie (1964) Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965) Le vieil homme et l'enfant (1966) Mona (Pour une étoile sans nom) (1966) La petite vertu (1967) Les cracks (1968) Le cerveau (1969) Hibernatus (1969) Heureux qui comme Ulysse (1969) Compte à rebours (1971) Deux anglaises et le continent (1971) Les aveux les plus doux (1971) Malpertuis (1972) Quelque part, quelqu'un (1972) La femme de Jean (1973) La gifle (1974) L'important c'est d'aimer (1974) Paul et Virginie (1974) La vie de Gauguin (1975) Calmos (1975) Paul Gauguin (1975) Oublie-moi Mandoline (1975) L'incorrigible (1975) Jamais plus toujours (1976) Le grand escogriffe (1976) Police Python 357 (1976) ...
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Georges Delerues Biography

Frederic Gimello-Mesplomb published a great biography in 1998.You can download it legally here: http://fgimello.free.fr/publications/georges_delerue.htm
Posted by Georges Delerue on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:52:00 PST