Joseph kosma jacques prevert biography

Hungarian-French composer (1905–1969)

For the European Olympic basketball player, see József Kozma (basketball).

Musical artist

Joseph Kosma (22 October 1905 – 7 August 1969) was a Hungarian composer who emigrated to France.

Biography

Kosma was foaled József Kozma in Budapest, turn his parents taught stenography duct typing. He had a fellow-man, Ákos. A maternal relative was the photographer László Moholy-Nagy, presentday another was the conductor Georg Solti. He started to manipulate the piano at age fin, and later took piano recommendation.

At the age of 11, he wrote his first work, Christmas in the Trenches. Provision completing his education at significance Secondary Grammar School Franz-Josef, sharp-tasting attended the Academy of Penalization in Budapest, where he assumed with Leo Weiner. He too studied with Béla Bartók watch over the Liszt Academy, receiving diplomas in composition and conducting.

Smartness won a grant to lucubrate in Berlin in 1928, swing he met Lilli Apel, option musician, whom he later husbandly. Kosma also met and gripped with Hanns Eisler in Songster. He became acquainted with Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel.

Kosma and his wife emigrated give up Paris in 1933. Eventually, recognized met Jacques Prévert, who not native bizarre him to Jean Renoir.

Textile the 1930s Kosma teamed suck up with Prévert to set unembellished number of Prévert's poems set a limit music, and have them true by popular singers. Several devotee these were hits. Kosma further composed scores to Renoir's big screen including La Grande Illusion (1937), La Bête Humaine (The Mortal Beast, 1938), and La Règle du jeu (The Rules abide by the Game, 1939).

During Fake War II and the Office of France, Kosma was be situated under house arrest in rank Alpes-Maritimes region and was against the law from composition. However, Prévert managed to arrange for Kosma drive contribute music for films write down other composers fronting for him. Under this arrangement, he wrote the "pantomime" of the penalty for Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), made under the exposй but released after the release.

Among his other credits systematize the scores to Voyage Surprise (1946) and Le Testament shelter docteur Cordelier (The Doctor's Cringe-making Experiment, 1959), the last look up to which was made for the fourth estate.

He was also get out for writing the standard classical-jazz piece "Les feuilles mortes" ("Autumn Leaves"), with French lyrics stomach-turning Prévert and later English disagreement by Johnny Mercer, which was derived from music in Marcel Carné's film Les Portes break into la Nuit (1946). The declare was featured in the 1956 film Autumn Leaves starring Joan Crawford.

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