Maurice Jarre is remembered in music for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Maurice Jarre as French composer and conductor (1924-2009).
Maurice Jarre was born in 1924.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Maurice Jarre is associated first and foremost with collaborations with film director David Lean, composing the scores to all of his films from 1962 to 1984. Performance is the most perishable art and recording the most durable; a career sits between the two.
Death came in 2009, at 85. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
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