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Gabriel Yared (born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working with American film directors, winning an Oscar for his score for The English Patient and a nomination for The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain.

In 2004, Yared's score to the movie Troy, with a song by Tanja Tzarovska, was rejected due to the poor reception it received in a test screening. It was replaced with one by James Horner.

Biography

At the age of 7, his father sent Yared to an accordion teacher. Two years later he stopped his accordion lessons and started learning music theory and piano lessons. His piano teacher thought that he had no future in music.

He wasn’t a very good pianist; however, he was interested in reading music. So instead of preparing his piano lessons, he would read through the entire book, leaving his lessons undone. At this time, Gabriel Yared realized that his future was not in performing, but in composing.

At the age of 14, his piano teacher died, so he was to replace him as the organist of Saint Joseph University. He used the university’s library to read all the work of Bach, Schumann, and many others. This extensive reading made him write his first piece at that age, a piano waltz.

Since his parents didn’t have a musical career in mind for him, he studied law and earned a degree.

He never had any real musical education, until he traveled to France in 1969, and attended the “Ecole Normale du Musique” as a non-registered student. There he learned the rules of music composition.

At the end of 1971, he went to Brazil to visit his uncle. There, the president of the World Federation of light music festivals asked him to write a song to represent the Lebanese in the Rio Song Festival. His song won the first prize.

In Brazil, he kept on performing with his small orchestra. He says that till today, Brazil has a big influence over his work.

In 1979, he became a fashionable light music orchestrator.

He then went to France, where he met with the Costa Brothers and collaborated with them. There, he wrote many orchestrations, and ended up with three thousand orchestrations in six years.

In 1976, not to be limited by orchestrating, he collaborated with Francois Hardy and fully produced his album, Star. He worked with many other people and contributed to many radio and TV jingles. He created the TF1 news jingles, since 1980.

Filmography

Breaking and Entering (2006) Original Music
Bon Voyage (2004) Music
Shall We Dance? (2004) Music
Cold Mountain (2003) Composer
Cold Mountain (2003) Orchestrations
Sylvia (2003) Composer
Possession (2002) Composer
Possession (2002) Music Conductor ("Possession")
Possession (2002) Music Producer ("Possession")
Possession (2002) Orchestrations
Possession (2002) Music ("Possession")
Autumn in New York (2000) Music Conductor
Autumn in New York (2000) Music
The Next Best Thing (2000) Music
The Next Best Thing (2000) Music Conductor
The Next Best Thing (2000) Orchestrations
Message in A Bottle (1999) Orchestrations
Message in A Bottle (1999) Music
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Music Producer
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Orchestrations
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Music
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Music ("Lullaby for Cain")
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Music Performer ("Stabat Mater" "Knees Up, Mother Brown")
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Music Producer ("You Don't Know What Love Is")
City of Angels (1998) Music
City of Angels (1998) Orchestrations
The English Patient (1996) Original Music
Map of the Human Heart (1993) Music
The Lover (1992) Music
Tatie Danielle (1991) Music ("The Complaint of the Old Bitch")
Vincent & Theo (1990) Music
Camille Claudel (1989) Music
Romero (1989) Music
Clean & Sober (1988) Music
Light Years (1988) Music
Beyond Therapy (1987) Music
Betty Blue (1986) Music Conductor
Betty Blue (1986) Music

Awards

Best Original Score (nominee): Cold Mountain (2003) by The Chicago Film Critics Association
Best Score (nominee): Cold Mountain (2003) by Academy
Best Score (nominee): Cold Mountain (2003) by Golden Globe
Best Original Score (nominee): Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) by Academy
Best Score (winner): Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) by Broadcast Film Critics Association
Best Film Music (nominee): Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) by British Academy Awards
Best Original Score (nominee): Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) by Golden Globe
Best Dramatic Score (winner): English Patient (1996) by Academy
Best Score (winner): English Patient (1996) by Golden Globe
Best Music (winner): Amant (1992) by French Academy of Cinema

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