Maurice Jarre Net Worth is
$600,000

Mini Biography

Unlike many musicians who began to find out music while still within their childhood, Maurice Jarre had been past due in his teens when he uncovered music and made a decision to make a profession in that line of business. Against his father’s will, he enrolled at Conservatoire de Paris where he examined percussions, structure and harmonies. He also fulfilled and examined under Joseph Martenot, inventor from the Martenot Waves, an electric key pad that prefigured the present day synthesizer. After departing the Conservatoire, Jarre played percussion and Martenot Waves for some time at Jean-Louis Barrault’s theater. In 1950, another actor-director, Jean Vilar, asked Jarre to rating his creation of Kleist’s ‘The Princess of Homburg’, the initial score Jarre composed. Soon after, Vilar made the ‘Théâtre Country wide Populaire’ and employed Jarre as long lasting composer, a link that lasted 12 years. In 1951, filmmaker Georges Franju asked him to create the music of his 23 short minutes documentary Hôtel des Invalides (1952), Jarre’s initial structure for the film screen. His initial full-length feature, once again aimed by Georges Franju, was Mind Against the Wall structure (1959) accompanied by Franju’s most widely known film, Les yeux sans visage (1960). Jarre’s profession took a magnificent submit 1961 when maker Sam Spiegel asked him to focus on David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962). In the beginning, three composers had been supposed to create the rating, but for numerous reasons, Jarre finished up writing all of the music himself and received his 1st Oscar. His second cooperation with David Slim on Doctor Zhivago (1965) gained him another Oscar and acquired an even of success hardly ever attained by a film rating. He collaborated with Slim once again on Ryan’s Child (1970) and A Passing to India (1984) that he received another Academy Honor. He was arranged to rating Lean’s next film, ‘Nostromo’, however the movie director became sick and died prior to the film could ever obtain made. He also worked for directors as diverse as William Wyler (The Collector (1965)); John Huston (three movies); Franco Zeffirelli (Jesus of Nazareth (1977)); Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum (1979) [The Tin Drum] and Group of Deceit (1981) [Group of Deceit]); Peter Weir (four movies); Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist (1988)) and Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds (1995)). Mainly regarded as a symphonist and known for his prominent usage of percussions, Jarre frequently integrated ethnic instruments in his orchestrations like cithara in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ or fujara (a vintage Slovak flute) in ‘The Tin Drum’. Through the eighties, he included synthetic noises in his music, composing his first completely electronic rating for THE ENTIRE YEAR of Living Dangerously (1982). His kid Jean-Michel Jarre is certainly a well-known well-known musician.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Maurice Jarre
Died	March 28, 2009, Malibu, California, United States
Profession	Conductor, Film Score Composer, Doctor Zhivago: Lara's Theme, Unchained Melody, Building the Barn
Education	Conservatoire de Paris
Nationality	French
Spouse	Fong F. Khong, Laura Devon, Dany Saval, France Pejot, Doctor Zhivago: Lara's Theme, Unchained Melody, Building the Barn
Children	Jean-Michel Jarre, Stephanie Jarre, Kevin Jarre, Doctor Zhivago: Lara's Theme, Unchained Melody, Building the Barn
Parents	Gabrielle Renée Jarre, André Jarre, Doctor Zhivago: Lara's Theme, Unchained Melody, Building the Barn
Awards	Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, Honorary César, Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award, Doctor Zhivago: Lara's Theme, Unchained Melody, Building the Barn
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Original Song, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score, Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score, Doctor Zhivago: Lara's Theme, Unchained Melody, Building the Barn
Movies	Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, A Passage to India, Dead Poets Society, Ghost, Witness, Ryan's Daughter, The Message, A Walk in the Clouds, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Fatal Attraction, The Year of Living Dangerously, Gorillas in the Mist, Is Paris Burning?, Eyes Without a Face, The Man Who Would Be King, The Mosquito Coast, The Longest Day, Grand Prix, I Dreamed of Africa, Jacob's Ladder, Enemy Mine, Head Against the Wall, Prancer, The Tin Drum, Red Sun, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Sundays and Cybele, Mandingo, No Way Out, Fearless, Judex, The Night of the Generals, The Damned, Behold a Pale Horse, Dreamscape, Almost an Angel, After Dark, My Sweet, Crack in the Mirror, Top Secret!, 5 Card Stud, Gaby: A True Story, Chances Are, Isadora, Mr. Jones, Only the Lonely, March or Die, Posse, Plaza Suite, Circle of Deceit, Hôtel des Invalides