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  2. Maurice-Alexis Jarre (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis alɛksi ʒaʁ]; 13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) [1] [2] [3] was a French composer and conductor. Jarre is best known for his film scores, particularly for his collaborations with film director David Lean composing all of his films from 1962 to 1984.

  3. Mar 30, 2009 · The French composer, who died Sunday in Los Angeles at 84, after a losing bout with cancer, wrote the scores for more than 150 features, but he’ll always be associated with Lean, as much as ...

    • Richard Corliss
  4. Mar 30, 2009 · Jarre died in his villa in California, where he had lived for decades, Bernard Miyet, a friend of the composer and leader of the French musicians’ guild SACEM, said Monday. No cause of death...

  5. Mar 31, 2009 · Maurice Jarre, the French-born composer who won Oscars for his powerfully evocative scores for the David Lean epics “Lawrence of Arabia, “Doctor Zhivago and “A Passage to India,” has died.

    • Dennis Mclellan
  6. After a battle with cancer, the award winning Hollywood film composer, Maurice Jarre has died in Los Angeles aged 84. Celebrated for his music scores for more than 150 films, Jarre's music enhanced the work of a number of acclaimed directors, including John Frankenheimer, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston and Luchino Visconti.

  7. Mar 31, 2009 · Maurice Jarre, a composer who mastered the musical idiom of the Hollywood epic and was nominated nine times for Academy Awards, winning three, died Saturday in Malibu. He was 84. He died after...

  8. Apr 7, 2009 · Jarre, who died in Los Angeles on March 29 at 84, put this knowledge to use in his first famous scores: the heroic theme that lent a galloping grandeur to David Lean’s 1962 Middle Eastern ...