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

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My parents did not have any interest in music.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Composer

Born: September 13th, 1924

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