What is Georges Auric?
[[File:Georges Auric 1940.jpg|thumb|right|Georges Auric]] '''Georges Auric''' (born Lodève, [[France]], 15 February 1899; died [[Paris]] 23 July 1983) was a French [[composer]]. He was one of the six composers who became known as [[Les Six]]. ==Childhood== Auric was a [[child prodigy]]. He composed a lot of music from the age of 10, but most of these early works he destroyed later. He grew up in [[Montpellier]]. In 1913, his parents moved to [[Paris]] so that he could study at the [[Paris Conservatoire]]. He studied with the composer [[Vincent D'Indy]] at the [[Schola Cantorum]]. By the time he had joined Les Six he had already become a composer with a strong, personal style of writing. His music is often energetic and aggressive. ==Works== Auric wrote ballet music for [[Diaghilev]]. When [[Jean Cocteau]] started making motion pictures at the beginning of the 1930s Auric began writing film music. He wrote soundtracks for a number of French and British films, and then for [[Hollywood]] movies, too. ''The Song from Moulin Rouge'' made it to the [[hit parade]]. In 1962, he gave up writing for moving pictures when he became director of the [[Opéra National de Paris]] and then chairman of SACEM, the French Performing Rights Society. Auric continued to write classical [[chamber music]], especially for [[wind instrument]]s, for the rest of his life. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Auric, Georges}} [[Category:1899 births]] [[Category:1983 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century French composers]] [[Category:Musicians from Montpellier]]