Vladimir Cosma
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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.
Rahan, fils des ages farouches
Music Director
Age 47 (now 86)
We Will All Meet in Paradise
as Violinist at Mouchy's party (uncredited)
Age 37 (now 86)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Original Music Composer
Age 33 (now 86)
Petit déjeuner compris
Original Music Composer
Age 39 (now 86)Les Affaires sont les affaires
Compositor
Age 83 (now 86)
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
as Self - Composer
Age 82 (now 86)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Film music composer
Age 77 (now 86)
Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
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Age 75 (now 86)
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Original Music Composer
Age 73 (now 86)
Il était une fois... « Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob »
as Self
Age 69 (now 86)
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
as Self
Age 65 (now 86)
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Original Music Composer
Age 51 (now 86)
Edgar et sa bonne - Voyage autour de ma marmite
Music
Age 44 (now 86)
Un adolescent d'autrefois
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Age 42 (now 86)
Memoirs of a French Whore
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Age 39 (now 86)
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
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Age 39 (now 86)
Plein les poches pour pas un rond...
Original Music Composer
Age 38 (now 86)
We Will All Meet in Paradise
as Violinist at Mouchy's party (uncredited)
Age 37 (now 86)
Sherlock Holmes - Le Signe des quatre
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Age 35 (now 86)Callaghan : Un rendez-vous dans les ténèbres
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Age 35 (now 86)
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
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Age 34 (now 86)
My Husband, His Mistress and I
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Age 34 (now 86)
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
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Age 33 (now 86)
Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
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Age 33 (now 86) The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Original Music Composer
Age 33 (now 86)
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Original Music Composer
Age 33 (now 86)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
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Age 32 (now 86)
Neither by Day Nor by Night
Original Music Composer
Age 32 (now 86)
The Death of Joe the Indian
Original Music Composer
Age 28 (now 86)
Rahan, fils des ages farouches
Music Director
Age 47 (now 86)
Petit déjeuner compris
Original Music Composer
Age 39 (now 86)
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Also Known As
Miroslav Cadim, Wladimir Coma, Wladimir Cosma, Richard Eldwyn, C. Pïmper, C. Pinter
IMDB
nm0006019