Maurice Jarre, composer of "Dr Zhivago" music, dies
AFP
PARIS (AFP) - Maurice Jarre, Oscar-winning composer of music for films including "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia", died overnight Sunday in Los Angeles aged 84.
The death of Jarre, who won a third Oscar for his score for "A Passage to India", was announced to AFP by the manager of his son, electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre.
In 1952 he wrote his first score, for the short "Hotel des Invalides," at the request of director Georges Franju.
Maurice Jarre, who settled in the United States in the mid-1960s, also wrote symphonic music and music for theatre and ballet.
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