Maurice Jaubert

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Maurice Jaubert (born Nice 3 January 1900 - wounded in combat at Azerailles near Baccarat, where he died 19 June 1940) was a French composer of incidental music for stage and film music, famous for his collaborations with the masters of poetic realism Jean Vigo, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné. He also had a long collaboration with Jean Giraudoux.

From 1931-5 he was music director of the Pathé-Nathan studios, where he conducted not only his own scores but those of Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud. He makes a cameo appearance as a conductor in Kurt Bernhardt's La Nuit de décembre (1939). As a journalist he championed many composers, including Kurt Weill.

In Vigo's Zéro de conduite he played recorded sounds backwards to accompany a slow motion sequence, anticipating a favorite technique of musique concrète.

French film director François Truffaut used Jaubert's music in his films in the late 1970s.

Selected filmography

The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929)

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 59239833 LCCN: n79116218 ISNI: 0000 0000 8138 5117 GND: 119444801 BNF: cb135149917

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Name	Jaubert, Maurice
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Short description	French composer
Date of birth	1900
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Date of death	1940
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