The composer Georges Delerue attended Olivier Messiaen’s class at the Paris Conservatoire alongside Pierre Boulez.
Both reached their centenary this year.
Delerue became a prolific c omposer for film and TV with more than 350 scores to his credit. He was first-choice composer for Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Goddard, Louis Malle and Bernardo Bertolucci. Ken Russell masw a BBC documentary about him, Don’t Shoot the Composer.
The price of his success was a Boulez-inspired ban on his concert works.
Time to change that tune?
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