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Francis Lai
Francis Lai is a composer noted for his film scores. While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene. In 1965 he met filmmaker Claude Lelouch and was hired to help write the score for the film, ''Un homme et une femme'' . Released in 1966, the film was a major international success, earning a number of Academy Awards, and for the young Francis Lai, a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best Original Score." This initial... More »
William Sheller
William Sheller is a French composer and singer. Shiller was born William Hand in Paris. The "Introit" from his ''Lux Aeterna'' was heavily sampled for the title track from ''Deltron 3030'' , produced by Dan the Automator. More »
Jacques Ibert
Jacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer of classical music. More »
Bernard Peiffer
Bernard Peiffer was a French jazz pianist, composer, and teacher. More »
Georges Delerue
Georges Delerue was a renowned French film composer who composed over 500 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize , Emmy Award , Genie Award , ACE Award and Academy Award in 1979 for A Little Romance and 4 other Academy Nominations . Le Figaro Magazine addressed him as "Mozart of Cinema" , and he marks France history that Delerue's the first and perhaps the only composer won 3 Cesar Awards consecutively plus 5 other Cesar Nominations . More »
Georges Auric
Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and under the composer Vincent D'Indy at the Schola Cantorum. Before he turned 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for several ballets and stage productions. As a young student of at the Paris Conservatory in 1920, and, considered ''avant-garde'', Auric became part of... More »
Paul Misraki
Paul Misraki is a French composer for films and songs, etc... Films including "Montparnasse 19", "And God Created Woman", "Le Doulos", "Alphaville". fr:Paul Misraki More »
Marcel Landowski
Marcel Landowski was a French composer, biographer and arts administrator. Born at Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère, Brittany, he was the son of Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and great-grandson of the composer Henri Vieuxtemps. As an infant he showed early musical promise, and studied piano under Marguerite Long. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1935 where one of his teachers was Pierre Monteux. Landowski's greatest musical influence was Arthur Honegger. More »
Jérôme Leroy (composer)
Jérôme Leroy is a film composer, orchestrator and conductor currently living in Los Angeles, California, USA. More »
Éric Serra
Éric Serra is a French composer, often working with Luc Besson on his movies. More »
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