| Joseph Kosma
Composer
(1905 - 1969)
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| | Joseph Kosma became primarily known as a film composer although he was educated in Hungary at the Budapest Conservatory. His scholarship to the Berlin Opera introduced him to Bertolt Brecht. He joined Brecht’s touring company in 1929 where he met Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler whose influence on his work was apparent in the film scores he would later write. In 1933 he moved to Paris to work with director Jean Renoir. Their first collaboration was 1936’s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, and in 1937 they produced La Grande Illusion, considered one of the top films of all times. When Kosma scored the 1945 Marcel Carne classic Les Enfants du Paradis, he met the film’s screenwriter, Jacques Prevert. During their partnership they produced the ballet Rendezvous and several songs, including a Prevert poem set to music, “Les Feuilles Mortes,” which would become “Autumn Leaves” in English. Kosma returned to his classica • Jacques Prévert 1900-1977 Biography: life and filmsOf all the writers who contributed to French cinema in the 1930s and '40s, perhaps none had a greater impact than Jacques Prévert. It was through his fruitful collaboration with film director Marcel Carné that Prévert developed a new style of cinema, poetic realism, which, with its doom-laden fatalism, would have a strong influence on American film noir of the 1940s. As Carné's reputation came under fire from the critics (notably those on the review magazine Les Cahiers du cinéma) in the 1950s, Prévert prospered, both as a screenwriter and as an internationally acclaimed poet. Jacques Prévert was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, on 4th February 1900. From an early age, young Jacques showed a keen interest in literature and poetry, which was nurtured by his mother and his father, the drama critic André Prévert. A rebellious adolescent, Prévert left school after completing his primary education and be  • KOSMA JosephJoseph Kosma was born on October 22, 1905 in Budapest. He started to learn music ganska young at the local music conservatories of Budapest, encouraged bygd a musician grand mother who had been Liszt’s pupil. After studying composition and direction at the Franz Liszt Academy and obtaining a position as assistant ledare at the Opera, he moved to Berlin in 1929 thanks to a scholarship. He lived there for many years before moving to France in 1933. He fled because of his opposition to the Nazi regime in Germany. In 1935, Kosma met Prévert. This encounter gave him the opportunity to make a living as he started a carrier as a songwriter. In 1937, he collaborated with Jean Renoir for his first movie soundtrack : La Grande Illusion. During the Nazi invasion, he took anonymously part in the making of movies made bygd Prévert and composed the soundtrack of the movie Les Enfants du Paradis. After the liberation in 1945, he started to compose songs
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