Which French composer and musician wrote the film score "L'Absente", an album of great variety, and Amélie, the soundtrack to the 2001 French film "Amélie", a story about a girl that had been home-schooled since childhood?
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L'Absente L'Absente is the fourth studio album by French composer and musician Yann Tiersen. When French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet asked Tiersen if he was interested in writing the film score for "Amélie", Tiersen was already working on "L'Absente". The album was released on 5 June 2001 through EMI France, and was preceded by two promotional singles for "À quai" and "Bagatelle". "L'Absente" is an album of great variety with Tiersen playing many instruments including an old-fashioned typewriter and a pot, and it is characterized by several guests contributions provided by the 35-member Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne, French folk rock group Têtes Raides, singers Dominique A, Lisa Germano, Neil Hannon, and Belgian actress Natacha Régnier, ondes Martenot player Christine Ott, Christian Quermalet, guitarist Marc Sens, viola player Bertrand Lambert, violinists Yann Bisquay and Sophie Naboulay, saxophonist Grégoire Simon, and drummer Sacha Toorop. "L'Absente" peaked at number 41 on the French Albums Chart.
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Amélie (soundtrack) Amélie is the soundtrack to the 2001 French film "Amélie", a motion picture set in Paris, France, about a young woman endeavouring to help and improve the lives of those around her. Having been home-schooled since childhood, Amélie finally leaves her lifelong home and begins to discover her true vocation in life: awarding her neighbours and colleagues love and happiness. But when Amélie chances upon her own romance, her adventure truly begins—ever captured by the music of Yann Tiersen.
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Ferdinand Beyer Ferdinand Beyer (Querfurt, 25 July 1803 – Mainz, 14 May 1863) was a German composer and Pianist. Well known in his day for his light music and piano arrangements of popular orchestral works, he is now mainly known for his book "Vorschule im Klavierspiel" (Beginning Piano School or Elementary Instruction Book for the Piano) op.101 (1851).
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Isabelle Aboulker Isabelle Aboulker is a French composer, particularly known for her operas and other vocal works. In 1999 she gained a prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and in 2000 the music prize of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques for her numerous lyric pieces.
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Tosca (film) Tosca is a 2001 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot based on the opera by Giacomo Puccini.
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Virginie Morel-du Verger Virginie Morel du Verger (Christiane) (1779 – 17 December 1870) was a French pianist, music teacher and composer. Virginie Morel was born in Metz, and studied with Louis Adam at the Paris Conservatoire in 1814 where she received first prize in piano. She later continued her studies with Ferdinand Hummel and became pianist to the Duchess de Berry. She married the Lieutenant Colonel of Staff, Baron du Verger in 1829, and composed a "Piano Sonata", eight etudes, three duets for violin and piano and similar chamber works. She died at her husband's property the Chateau du Verger.
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Philippe Beaussant Philippe Beaussant (6 May 1930 – 8 May 2016) was a French musicologist and novelist, an expert on French baroque music, on which he has published widely. He was the founder of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, of which he was the artistic adviser of 1987 to 1996. He has also been a producer of musical programs for Radio France since 1974. His biography of Jean-Baptiste Lully, "Lully ou le musicien du soleil" (Éditions Gallimard, 1992), was the basis of the film "Le Roi Danse" (2000).
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Éric Dupond-Moretti Dupond is the only son of Jean-Pierre Dupond, a metal worker from Avesnois, and Elena Moretti, a housewife from Italy. His paternal grandparents, Achille and Louise, were also workers. Fatherless at the age of four, his mother raised him alone. Like many famous fatherless criminal lawyers (Robert Badinter, Georges Kiejman, Hervé Temime), his childhood gave him a sense of injustice. He attended secondary school at the Catholic Lycée Notre-Dame, in Valenciennes, where he obtained his baccalauréat.
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Fania Fénelon Fania Fénelon (2 September 1908 – 19 December 1983) was a French pianist, composer and cabaret singer, whose survival of the Holocaust was made into a television film, "Playing For Time".
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Joelle Wallach Joelle Wallach (born June 29, 1946, in New York) is an American composer. As a girl she lived for five years in Morocco before returning to the United States to attend the Juilliard School's pre-college program, where she studied the violin, piano, singing, theory, and composition. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in music composition in 1967. She continued with graduate studies at Columbia University (MA 1969), and, as a pupil of John Corigliano, at the Manhattan School of Music (DMA 1984).
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Esther Farinde Esther is the 7th of 10 children born to parents originally from Efon-Alaiye, in Ekiti State, in western Nigeria. Esther grew up in England, where she attended Ecclesbourne School, Islington Green School (replaced in 2008 by City of London Academy, Islington), and City and Islington College, (as did fellow artist Paloma Faith). Between 2003 and 2006, Esther attended The University of Northampton from which she graduated with a BA in Music and Media.
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Home (2009 film) Home is a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet.
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Camille Lou Camille Houssière, better known as Camille Lou or, formally, as Jimmie, is a French singer, musician, and actress born on 22 May in Bersillies, Nord, France. She is well known for her roles in musical comedies, including "1789, les amants de la Bastille" in the role of Olympe, and "La Légende du roi Arthur" in the role of Reine Guenièvre.
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Damien Luce Damien Luce (born 1978) is a French pianist, actor, and writer. He studied with Billy Eidi at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris and with Herbert Stessin at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He also studied chamber music with Bruce Brubaker, Harvey Shapiro and Andre Emilianov, conducting with Laurent Petitgirard and orchestration with Alain Louvier. In 2001, he was chosen to perform for Murray Perahia’s Master Class at the Juilliard School. In June 2000, he was an alternate at the Aspen Music Festival concerto competition.
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Mélanie Bonis Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as Mel Bonis (b. 4th arrondissement of Paris, 21 January 1858 – d. Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise), 18 March 1937) was a prolific French classical composer. She wrote more than 300 compositions, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, mélodies, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. The organist Auguste Bazille was one of her teachers.
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The Girl (2009 film) The Girl (Swedish: Flickan) is a 2009 drama film from Sweden directed by Fredrik Edfeldt. It tells the story of a little girl (played by Blanca Engström) left alone at her home in 1981, while her parents and brother are on a trip to Sub-Saharan Africa to do charitable work.
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Lolita Go Home Lolita Go Home is an album by Jane Birkin, released in 1975. About half of the songs were written by Serge Gainsbourg (music) and Philippe Labro (words). The other half are old musical tunes. "Rien pour rien" uses the same melody as Serge Gainsbourg's "Le Cadavre Exquis" (1975).
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Armande de Polignac Armande de Polignac, Comtesse de Chabannes-La Palice (Marie Armande Mathilde; 8 January 1876 – 29 April 1962) was a French composer, the niece of Prince Edmond de Polignac and Princess Winnaretta de Polignac, the patron of Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud. She studied with Vincent d'Indy at Schola Cantorum, and married the Comte de Chabanne la Palice.
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Amelie Fried Amelie Fried (Ulm, September 6, 1958) is a German writer and television presenter. Her father, Kurt Fried, is the creator-publisher of "Schwäbische Donauzeitung", nowadays a part of Südwest Presse. Her 2008 book "Schuhhaus Pallas. Wie meine Familie sich gegen die Nazis wehrte" deals with her family persecutions during the Third Reich.
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Cécile Corbel Cécile Corbel (born 28 March 1980, Pont-Croix, Finistère, France) is a French and Breton singer, harpist, and composer. She has released five albums of original music and worked for Studio Ghibli as a composer for its 2010 film, "The Borrower Arrietty". Corbel sings in many languages including French, Italian, Breton, and English and has done songs in German, Spanish, Irish, Turkish, and Japanese. Her lifelong partner is songwriter Simon Caby, who is also her co-composer.
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Henri Bertini Henri Jérôme Bertini (28 October 1798 – 30 September 1876) was a French classical composer and pianist. He was born into a family of musicians and attracted the attention of François-Joseph Fétis when he toured Europe as a child prodigy. As an adult he was admired both as a soloist and as a chamber musician; it was said that he played with Johann Nepomuk Hummel's simplicity and elegance without sacrificing the brilliance of the instrument. As a composer he had an original style which was rich in musical ideas, attractive melodies, and effortless harmonies. In 1848 he retired from the musical scene and settled in the Dauphiné in south-east France.
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17 Girls 17 Girls (French: 17 filles ) is a 2011 French film about 17 teenage girls who make a pregnancy pact. The film was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. "17 Girls" is based on the alleged pregnancy pact that took place at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts in 2008.