Georges Auric
A Life in Music and Politics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 July 2020
- ISBN 9780190607777
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 163x236x27 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 photographs 85
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Short description:
The first English-language biography of this major French film composer, George Auric: A Life in Music and Politics examines not only the impact of Auric's leftist politics on his work, but also the myriad roles he held outside of film composition - including but not limited to music critic, opera director, and arts administrator.
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Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Moulin Rouge - the names popularly associated with film composer Georges Auric's career conjure visions of a distant and glamorous early twentieth-century Parisian art world. Auric wrote well over 100 film scores, including the soundtrack for Roman Holiday, and was notably affiliated with Les Six, a group of French composers reacting to the musical establishment of the 1920s. But Auric's life and work spanned far beyond this limited sphere. A lifelong involvement in politics - from his leftism during the Popular Front years of the 1930s to his significant role in the French Communist Party's musical resistance of the 1940s - heavily influenced his sound and aesthetic. His advocacy on behalf of his fellow musicians led him into the fight for fair copyright laws, initially in France and then worldwide. And over the course of a seven-decade-long career, Auric took on roles as diverse as music critic, opera director, and arts administrator, revealing a deep involvement in his country's musical life that makes the label of "composer" seem inadequate.
The first English-language biography of Auric, Georges Auric: A Life in Music and Politics rethinks the conventional ideas of what it means to be a composer. Drawing from an astonishing three dozen untapped archives, including the private archives of Auric's widow, author Colin Roust presents a picture of Auric that is as multifaceted as the man's career. Using Auric's life as a lens, Roust reveals the transforming role of music - and the composer - in twentieth-century society.
There can be no doubt that Roust's accessible, lucidly written book will serve as a touchstone for all future research on this remarkable composer.
Table of Contents:
Table of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Childhood in Lod?ve and Montpellier
Chapter 2: Parisian Debuts and World War I
Chapter 3: Post-War and Post-Apollinaire
Chapter 4: Boeuf sur le Toit and the Ballets Russes
Chapter 5: Withdrawing from the Parisian Music Scene
Chapter 6: The Popular Front Years and the Great Depression
Chapter 7: New Beginnings in the Post-War Years
Chapter 8: Personifying the Musical Establishment
Chapter 9: Retirement
Appendices
Appendix 1: Map of Auric's Midi
Appendix 2: Georges Auric's Family Tree
Appendix 3: Map of Auric's Montpellier
Appendix 4: Map of Auric's Paris
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