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Joseph Kosma
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22 October 1905 - 7 August 1969
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Joseph Kosma is a Hungarian composer who lived and worked in France. He was born in Budapest on October 22, 1905. Played the piano since the age of 5, and at 11 composed his first opera. After graduating from the gymnasium, Cosma studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest, in 1928 he won a grant to study in Berlin, where he met his future wife Lily Apel. In 1933, he and his wife emigrated to Paris. In France, Joseph met the poet and film playwright Jacques Prevert, who introduced him to the outstanding
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Joseph Kosma is a Hungarian composer who lived and worked in France.
He was born in Budapest on October 22, 1905. Played the piano since the age of 5, and at 11 composed his first opera. After graduating from the gymnasium, Cosma studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest, in 1928 he won a grant to study in Berlin, where he met his future wife Lily Apel. In 1933, he and his wife emigrated to Paris.
In France, Joseph met the poet and film playwright Jacques Prevert, who introduced him to the outstanding director Jean Renoir. Thus began the fruitful cooperation of a talented composer and a gifted director, as a result of which music for such films as the anti-war drama was written.
The great illusion The satirical film “Rules of the Game” (both today are among the best films of world cinema), as well as the comedy drama “Address Unknown”, the adventure comedy “Innocents in Paris” and a number of others. Cosma also wrote music for the films of other directors (in total, during his long career, the maestro acted as the author of soundtracks to more than one hundred and twenty films), among his works “The Gates of the Night” and “Children of Paradise” by Marcel Carne, “Main Street” by Juan Antonio Bardem, “Behind Closed Doors” by Jacqueline Audrey.
The composer died on August 7, 1969.