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Georges Delerue

1925 - 1992

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Georges Delerue (12 March 1925 – 20 March 1992) was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film music awards, including an Academy Award for A Little Romance (1980), three César Awards (1979, 1980, 1981), two ASCAP Awards (1988, 1990), and one Gemini Award for Sword of Gideon (1987). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Delerue has received more than 289,556 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Delerue is the 391st most popular composer (down from 386th in 2019), the 1,679th most popular biography from France (down from 1,621st in 2019) and the 61st most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Georges Delerue ranks 391 out of 1,216Before him are Domenico Zipoli, Fikret Amirov, Johan Svendsen, Giovanni Legrenzi, Josef Rheinberger, and Ferdinand Ries. After him are Johann Baptist Wanhal, Alfredo Casella, Hans Werner Henze, Ernest Ansermet, Adriano Banchieri, and Johannes Tinctoris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Georges Delerue ranks 100Before him are Veljko Kadijević, William Styron, Sammy Davis Jr., Martin Rodbell, Tom Gehrels, and Ernesto Cardenal. After him are Justo Gallego Martínez, Lepa Radić, Dettmar Cramer, Gore Vidal, Alexander Shulgin, and Donald O'Connor. Among people deceased in 1992, Georges Delerue ranks 59Before him are Judith Anderson, Lina Bo Bardi, Markos Vafeiadis, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Takeshi Inoue, and Albert King. After him are Dick York, Richard Brooks, Väinö Linna, Nathan Milstein, Larbi Benbarek, and Atahualpa Yupanqui.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Delerue ranks 1,679 out of 6,011Before him are Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), Pierre Puget (1620), Raoul Salan (1899), Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Adhemar of Le Puy (1055), and Natalia Pavlovna Paley (1905). After him are Christiane Martel (1936), Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674), Jacques Becker (1906), Felix of Valois (1127), Paul Abadie (1812), and Émile Picard (1856).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Georges Delerue ranks 61Before him are Louis Marchand (1669), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), Georg Muffat (1653), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), and Yo-Yo Ma (1955). After him are Charles Koechlin (1867), André Jolivet (1905), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), Étienne Méhul (1763), and Louis Durey (1888).