slint
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Innlegg
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That’s interesting to hear, slint, because I’ve always thought – from your FSM postings – that those Frenchmen were always your favourite composers. You have so much knowledge about them.
I’ve always preferred other French composers, including Philippe Sarde, Francis Lai, Antoine Duhamel or Pierre Jansen.
Georges Delerue is obviously very talented and has some beautiful lyrical scores, so has always been very much on the radar. I guess it is simply a matter of taste: some of his scores are technically very advanced and very cinematic, but I don’t really fancy listening to them over and over. He is one of those composers that are almost too good for their art, with the music outside of the film losing a bit of its strength.
The other two are different. Maurice Jarre had the majority of his scores recorded in Hollywood and I find his French period mostly unremarkable. For Michel Legrand I think some of his Nouvelle Vague scores are great but for different reasons, I am simply not that much of a fan. Both Jarre and Legrand were also a bit monothematic like many European score composers. I can certainly appreciate they had a huge contribution in film music and were 100% into it (they conducted all their scores), so I am now a bit more appreciative after having listened their full catalogues.
