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Maurice Jarre
12+ albums
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Maurice Jarre (born in Lyon, France, September 13, 1924, died in Malibu, USA, March 29th, 2009) was a French composer of film scores noted for the scores of many motion pictures, in particular those of David Lean -- Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984). All three of these scores won Academy Awards and are widely considered to be among Jarre's best work. Other notable movies scored by Jarre include Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969), John Huston'sThe Man Who Would Be King (1975), and great music for Mohamed: The Messenger of God 1976 by Mustafa Al AkkadTop Secret (1984), Dead Poets Society (1989) and Jacob's Ladder (1990). His best television work was probably the score for the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977), directed by Franco Zeffirelli . Jarre's television work also includes Shogun (1980), and the theme for PBS's Great Performances. Jarre scored his last film in 2001, a TV movie about the Holocaust entitled Uprising. Jarre wrote mainly for orchestras, but began to favor to synthesized music in the 1980s, mostly for practical rather than aesthetic motivations, many critics feel. Jarre denies this and has pointed-out that his electronic score for Witness was actually more laborious, time-consuming and expensive to produce than an orchestral score. Jarre's electronic scores from the 80s also include Fatal Attraction, The Year of Living Dangerously and No Way Out. A number of his scores from that era also feature electronic/ac
top songs
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Carpe Diem - From "Dead Poets Society"
23,6522Overture
22,2293Main Title
15,2724Miracle
12,9745The Voice of the Guns
12,6706Love Theme - From "Romeo and Juliet"
12,1227Miss Lily Langtry - cue from The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
11,8348Main Titles
11,1339That Is the Desert
10,30210Arrival At Auda's Camp
8,990albums
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia - re-recording
Ghost
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir's Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Dead Poets Society - Le cercle des poètes disparus (Peter Weir's Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Doctor Zhivago
The Essential Maurice Jarre Film Music Collection (Disc 1)
Doctor Zhivago (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Ghost (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Emotion And The Strength
The Essential Maurice Jarre Film Music Collection (Disc 2)
A Walk in the Clouds