Vladimir Cosma

Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist. He was born into a family of musicians. His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferruccio Busoni. After receiving first prizes for violin and composition at the Bucharest Conservatoire of Music, he arrived in Paris in 1963 and continued his studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, working with Nadia Boulanger. As well as for classical music, he discovered early on a passion for jazz, film music and all forms of popular music. From 1964 he made a number of international tours as a concert violinist and began to devote himself more and more to composing. He wrote various compositions including: Trois mouvements d'été for symphony orchestra, Oblique for violoncello and string orchestra, music for theatre and ballet (Volpone for the Comédie Française, the opera Fantômas...). In 1968, Yves Robert entrusted him with his first film music for Alexandre le Bienheureux. Vladimir Cosma has since composed more than three hundred scores for feature films and TV series. His numerous successes in the cinema have notably been in collaboration with Yves Robert, Gérard Oury, Francis Veber, Claude Pinoteau, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Claude Zidi, Ettore Scola, Pascal Thomas, Pierre Richard, Yves Boisset, André Cayatte, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Edouard Molinaro, Jean-Marie Poiré... and among which: Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, Diva, Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, La Boum, le Bal, l'As des As, la Chèvre, Les Fugitifs, Les Zozos, Pleure pas la bouche pleine, Dupont Lajoie, Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, La Dérobade, Le Père Noël est une ordure, L'Étudiante, La Gloire de mon père, Le Château de ma mère, Le dîner de cons ... Vladimir Cosma also featured in major French and American television productions: Michel Strogoff, Kidnapped, Mistral's Daughter, Châteauvallon, Les Mystères de Paris, Les Cœurs Brûlés... Film music allowed him to approach and develop many different musical styles: jazz (with music written for famous soloists such as Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Don Byas, Stéphane Grappelli, Jean-Luc Ponty, Philip Catherine, Tony Coe, Pepper Adams, la chanson (pour Nana Mouskouri, Marie Laforêt, Richard Sanderson, Diane Dufresne, Herbert Léonard, Mireille Mathieu, Nicole Croisille, Lara Fabian, Guy Marchand), original compositions inspired by folk-music (for Gheorghe Zamfir, Stanciu Simion Syrinx, pan-flute, Liam O'Flynn- pipes, Romane-guitar), as well as classical music (Berlin Concerto for violin and orchestra, Concerto for Euphonium and orchestra, Concerto Ibérique for trumpet and orchestra, Courts Métrages for brass quintet...). ... Source: Article "Vladimir Cosma" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Vladimir Cosma

Filmografia

La Boum éternelle : Histoire d'un grand film sans prétention

Louis de Funès, le rire éternel

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

Il tempo delle mele 2

Belmondo, itinéraire...

Pierre Richard... en mode Veber

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Il tempo delle mele 3

Il était une fois... « Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob »

Vladimir Cosma, tout pour la musique

Nous irons tous au paradis

Il tempo delle mele

La naissance du Grand Blond

Bonsoir

Le folli avventure di Rabbi Jacob

L'ala o la coscia?

Les comperes - Noi siamo tuo padre

Diva

Il grande biondo

La Zizanie

L'apparenza inganna

Dracula padre e figlio

L'animale

Asterix e la pozione magica

La Gloire de mon Père

Le Château de ma mère

Asterix e la sorpresa di Cesare

La cena dei cretini

Rebus per un delitto

Cuisine et Dépendances

La Rivale

Le Cours de la vie

Le Furet

Albert est méchant

La moutarde me monte au nez

Ville à vendre

Grabuge!

Due fuggitivi e mezzo

Tout le monde peut se tromper

Mort un dimanche de pluie

13 French Street

Soleil

לא ביום ולא בלילה

Coraggio scappiamo

Inspecteur La Bavure

Banzaï

Moartea lui Joe Indianul

Alto, biondo e... con una scarpa nera

Vacanze di sangue

L'asso degli assi

Dazzle

Piano Cinéma

Celles qu'on n'a pas eues

Drôle de samedi

Un pesce color rosa

Ragione di stato

Un profilo per due

Rouges étaient les lilas

Le Cabanon rose

Les Compagnons de la pomponnette

Calomnies

Sherlock Holmes - Le Signe des quatre

Callaghan : Un rendez-vous dans les ténèbres

Le Loup blanc

La Vouivre

La Surprise du chef

Un risque à courir

Le giornate intime di una giovane donna

Tous flics !

Night of the Fox

Pleure pas la bouche pleine

Ballando ballando

Nitwits

Le Jaguar

Le Jouet