COMPOSER

Maurice Jarre

1924 - 2009

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Maurice-Alexis Jarre (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis alɛksi ʒaʁ]; 13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor. Jarre is best known for his film scores, particularly for his collaborations with film director David Lean composing all of his films from 1962 to 1984. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre has received more than 1,425,207 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Maurice Jarre is the 130th most popular composer (up from 132nd in 2019), the 583rd most popular biography from France (up from 586th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Composer.

Maurice Jarre is most famous for his work on the soundtrack for the film Lawrence of Arabia.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Maurice Jarre ranks 130 out of 1,451. Before him are Max Bruch, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Mikhail Glinka, Daniel Auber, Benjamin Britten, and Carl Nielsen. After him are Domenico Cimarosa, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Johannes Ockeghem, Giovanni Gabrieli, César Cui, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Maurice Jarre ranks 20. Before him are Jacques Le Goff, Benoit Mandelbrot, Lauren Bacall, Sergei Parajanov, Paul Feyerabend, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After him are Benny Hill, Georges Charpak, Jovanka Broz, Ramiz Alia, Willard Boyle, and Roger Guillemin. Among people deceased in 2009, Maurice Jarre ranks 12. Before him are Corazon Aquino, Paul Samuelson, Roh Moo-hyun, Aage Bohr, Omar Bongo, and Pina Bausch. After him are David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Abdurrahman Wahid, Mercedes Sosa, Karl Malden, and Les Paul.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Jarre ranks 583 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Luigi Lucheni (1873), Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), and Francis, Duke of Guise (1519). After him are Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), Henri Barbusse (1873), René Lacoste (1904), Gérard de Nerval (1808), Joseph Proust (1754), and Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Maurice Jarre ranks 21. Before him are Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), Léo Delibes (1836), Francis Poulenc (1899), Adolphe Adam (1803), Arthur Honegger (1892), and Daniel Auber (1782). After him are Pérotin (1160), Marin Marais (1656), Édouard Lalo (1823), Paul Dukas (1865), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), and Darius Milhaud (1892).

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