Gabriel Yared (; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French

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, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in

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, Yared scored the French films '' Betty Blue'' and ''

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''. He later worked on English-language films, particularly those directed by

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. He won an

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and a

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for his work on '' The English Patient'' (1996) and was nominated for both ''

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'' (1999) and '' Cold Mountain'' (2003).

Life and career

When Yared was 7, his father sent him to an accordion teacher. Two years later Yared stopped his accordion lessons and started music theory and piano lessons. Although he was not necessarily a gifted pianist, Yared was interested in reading music. When Yared was 14, his piano teacher died and Yared replaced him as the organist of Université Saint-Joseph. Yared used the university's library to read the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, and many other composers. This extensive reading inspired his first original composition, a piano waltz. Yared gained a degree in law and did not formally study music at the university level until he traveled to France in 1969 to attend the

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as a non-registered student. There he learned music composition from

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. At the end of 1971, Yared went to Brazil to visit his uncle and was asked by the president of the World Federation of Light Music Festivals to write a song to represent the Lebanese in the

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Song Festival. The song he composed went on to win first prize. While in Brazil, he also performed with a small orchestra. Yared subsequently said that his time in Brazil greatly influenced his work. In 1975, he arranged the album ''

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'' for the popular Italian singer Mina. He then went back to France, where he met and collaborated with the Costa Brothers,

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, and numerous other musicians. This was a prolific period for the composer and he wrote nearly 3,000 pieces over a span of about six years. His contributions included a number of radio and TV jingles, such as

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news jingles and an episode on the series ''In the Tracks of''. Among the collaborations with

, Yared produced and arranged her 1977 album

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, composing two songs of the album,
Chanson sur toi et nous
' and
Fatiguée
'. Yared composed and produced Yara Lapidus' 2018 album '
Indéfiniment
'', and the final track
Encor Encor
' (bonus track version featuring

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) is a song based on '' Betty Blue'' soundtrack,
C'est le vent, Betty
'. Albums as a singer: '
Quand Le Monde
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Quand Le Monde
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Toc Toc Toqué
'' (1979) - Gabriel Yared: Composer, Arranger, Singer, Producer.

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: Lyricist. -
Papa Schumann
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"Numéro un" Season 6 - Episode 5
(February 16, 1980) Gabriel Yared "Papa Schumann"
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In 2012, he became Honorary President of Les Amis de Maurice Ravel. (Gabriel Yared, Président d’honneur des Amis de Maurice Ravel) Yared was a member of the Jury at the

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Film scores

Yared is best known for his collaborations with the late

. His first collaboration with Minghella was the 1996 film '' The English Patient'', which was highly acclaimed and won him an Oscar for Best Original Score. He composed the scores for all of Minghella's subsequent films and the music for the television series '' The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'', co-created by Minghella and

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. Aside from his work with Minghella, Yared scored a number of other films, including '' Betty Blue'' (1986), '' Map of the Human Heart'' (1992), '' City of Angels'' (1998), '' Message in a Bottle'' (1999), '' Autumn in New York'' (2000), '' The Next Best Thing'' (2000), '' Possession'' (2002), and '' Bon Voyage'' (2003). He had a notable collaboration with

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in the late 1980s on Gandahar and ''How Wang-fo was saved'' produced at the SEK Studio in

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. Cassandra Clare reported in August 2012 that Yared was tapped to compose the score for '' The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones''. However, he was eventually replaced on the project by Atli Örvarsson.

''Troy'' soundtrack

In 2004, Yared's score for the film ''

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'' was rejected less than a month before the film's opening as a result of the poor reception by a

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audience. The test audience were said to have found Yared's music too "brassy and bold".

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, the composer of the scores for such films as ''

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'' and ''

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'' was then hired to create a replacement score in less than four weeks. Yared expressed his dismay at the score's rejection in an open letter which was posted on his website. He said that the score which the test audience had heard was not yet finished and mixed properly, and that the studio had given him no opportunity to alter his score in light of the audience's reaction.

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still owns the rights to Yared's ''Troy'' score and an official recording is not currently available and may never be (although selections from the score were briefly posted on Yared's website and private promotional CD). Film score critic Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks.com felt that Yared's work for ''Troy'' was far superior to what Horner had written, giving Horner's score a 3-star rating and Yared's a 5-star rating, saying that it was "outstanding," and called it the "pinnacle of Yared's career."

Ballet scores

Yared created the score to the narrative ballet ''Raven Girl'' choreographed to the Royal Ballet by Wayne McGregor after the eponymous story by Audrey Niffenegger.

Selected filmography

*'' Sauve qui peut (la vie)'' (1980) Music *'' La Lune dans le caniveau'' (1983) Music *'' Hanna K.'' (1983) *'' Dangerous Moves'' (1984) Music *'' Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois!!'' (1985) Music *'' 37°2 le matin etty Blue' (1986) Music *'' Beyond Therapy'' (1987) Music *'' Agent trouble'' (1987) Music *'' L'homme voilé'' (1987) Music *'' Gandahar'' (1987) Music (not in US dubbed version ''

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'') *'' Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale'' (1988) *'' Clean and Sober'' (1988) Music *''

'' (1988) Music *'' Tennessee Waltz'' (Tennessee Nights) (1989) *''

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'' (1989) Music *'' Tatie Danielle'' (1990) Music and theme song "The Complaint of the Old Bitch" (sung by Catherine Ringer) *'' Les 1001 Nuits'' (1990) Music *'' Vincent & Theo'' (1990) Music *'' The King's Whore'' (1990) Music *'' L'Amant he Lover' (1992) Music *'' Map of the Human Heart'' (1992) Music *'' IP5: L'île aux pachydermes'' (IP5: The Island of Pachyderms) (1992) *'' La Fille de l'air'' (1992) Music *'' Wings of Courage'' (1995) *'' The English Patient'' (1996) Original Music *'' City of Angels'' (1998) Music and Orchestrations *'' Message in a Bottle'' (1999) Music and Orchestrations *''

'' (1999) Music, Orchestrations and songs *'' The Next Best Thing'' (2000) Music, Conductor and Orchestrations *'' Autumn in New York'' (2000) Composed and Conductor *''

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'' (2001) *'' Possession'' (2002) Composer, Conductor and Orchestrations *'' The One and Only'' (2002) *'' Bon voyage'' (2003) Music *'' Sylvia'' (2003) Composer *'' Cold Mountain'' (2003) Composed and Orchestrations *'' Shall We Dance?'' (2004) Music *''

'' (2004) Composed and Orchestrated (Music Rejected from Final Film) *'' Das Leben der Anderen'' (2006) Music *'' Azur and Asmar'' (2006) Music *''

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'' (2006) Music (with

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) *'' 1408'' (2007) Music *'' A Room with a View'' (2007) *'' Adam Resurrected'' (2008) *'' Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky'' (2009) Original music *'' The Hedgehog'' (2009) Original music *'' Amelia'' (2009) Original music *'' The Tourist'' (2010) Original music - Score rejected; replaced by

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. The movie does carry his track "Dance in F" *'' In the Land of Blood and Honey'' (2011) Original music *'' A Royal Affair'' (2012) Co-composed with Cyrille Aufort *''

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'' (French original title: Les Saveurs du Palais) (2012) Original music *'' Belle du Seigneur'' (2012) Original Music *'' Tom at the Farm'' (Tom à la ferme) (2013) *'' A Promise'' (2013) *'' In Secret'' (also known as ''Thérèse'') (2013) *'' The Prophet'' (2014) Original music *'' By the Sea'' (2015) Original music *'' Chocolat'' (2016) *'' It's Only the End of the World'' (2016) *'' The Promise'' (2016) *'' If You Saw His Heart'' (Si tu voyais son coeur) (2017) *'' The Happy Prince'' (2018) *'' Dilili in Paris'' (2018) *'' The Death and Life of John F. Donovan'' (2018) *'' Judy'' (2019) *'' The Life Ahead'' (La vita davanti a sé) (2020) *'' Scarlet'' (L'envol) (2022) *'' Just the Two of Us'' (2023) Original music

Awards and nominations

Yared has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score on three occasions. He won for '' The English Patient'' in 1996. He was also nominated for ''

'' (1999) and '' Cold Mountain'' (2003), but lost to John Corigliano and

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, respectively. He has also received three Golden Globe and three BAFTA nominations for the same films, and won both awards for '' The English Patient''. He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, again winning for '' The English Patient''. Yared has been honored with numerous career achievement awards; Film Fest Gent – Joseph Plateau Honorary Award (2001), Prix France Musique-Sacem de la musique de film (2008), European Film Awards – European Achievement in World Cinema (2010), Prix Henri-Langlois (2016),

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– Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), Prix UCMF ( Union des compositeurs de musiques de films) – Prix Hommage (2019), Hollywood in Vienna – Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award (2019), Festival du Cinéma et Musique de Film de La Baule – Golden Ibis Award (Honorary Award): Ibis d’Or d’Honneur (2019),

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(2020) and Les Plumes d’Or (hosted by APE, Association de la Presse Etrangère & UJC, Union des Journalistes de Cinéma) – Grand Prix de la Mémoire du Cinéma (2024).

References

External links

Official website
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(in French)
Gabriel Yared
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'Biography' of the official website
* interview, feature article ** Soundtrax (October 8, 2007

** Official Bespoke (December 24, 2008
Meet the Lebanese Composer Behind Some of Hollywood's Greatest Movie Soundtracks
** Doha Film Institute (December 6, 2014
Conversation with Gabriel Yared
** Cannes Film Festival (2017
interview: A word from Gabriel Yared
- interview video
in French

English Dubbed
** Score It Magazine (May 22, 2017
Cannes Film Festival Jury Member Gabriel Yared: A Dedication to Music
** Classic FM (June 20, 2018
I would have loved someone to tell me they were confident in my talent
(interview) ** Shanghai Daily (August 3, 2018
Oscar-winning film composer didn't let law get in the way of his love of music
** Arab News (June 2, 2020
Gabriel Yared’s musical journey comes full circle
** The Hollywood Reporter (December 11, 2020
Gabriel Yared on ''The Life Ahead'' (2020)
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Gabriel Yared on ''The Life Ahead''
(interview video) ** BSOSpirit.com
An Informal Chat with Gabriel Yared
* Audio and video ** INA, Institut national de l'audiovisuel
"Numéro un" Season 6 - Episode 5
(February 16, 1980) Gabriel Yared "Papa Schumann"
YouTube

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Papa Schumann
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Toc Toc Toqué
'' (1979) Gabriel Yared: Composer, Arranger, Singer, Producer. Michel Jonasz: Lyricist ** Philharmonia Orchestra
Meet the composer - Gabriel Yared
(interview) ** European Film Academy
Gabriel Yared - European Achievement in World Cinema 2010
** Hollywood in Vienna - Max Steiner Award (2019
MAX STEINER AWARD for Gabriel Yared & FINALE
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Hollywood in Vienna 2019 – Gabriel Yared
** World Soundtrack Awards (2020
Talks: Dirk Brossé in conversation with Gabriel Yared

''City of Angels'' (1998) Suite
** France Musique (January 29, 2021
Concert
(12 videos) Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Dirk Brossé
''Camille Claudel'' (1988) Suite
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** Vienna Symphonic Library: VSL Studio Chat with Gabriel Yared
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** National Gallery
How do you compose music to a painting? Gabriel Yared on Cezanne's 'Bathers'

Press Release: Soundscapes (July 8 – September 6, 2015)
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- The Bathers, Les Grandes Baigneuses) ** Cinémathèque Française (2012
video: Concert de musique de films de Gabriel Yared

(in French) ** Audi France (2017
Gabriel Yared Behind the Sceneaudifrance.fr: En coulisses, avec Gabriel Yared à la Philharmonie de Paris
(in French) ** Philharmonie de Paris (December 9, 2017
Entretien avec Gabriel Yared
(interview in French, 6 videos
philharmoniedeparis.fr: La planète Gabriel Yared
** The Film Music Foundation (August 13, 2018
interview with Gabriel Yared

Teaser
(4:14)
Gabriel Yared interviewed by Tim Grieving
(3:05:31) ** Prix UCMF (April 25, 2019
Prix Hommage
(in French)
interview
(in French)
Gabriel Yared sending a personal message to Dave Grusin
(in English) ** Radio France (October 2019
Gabriel Yared, grand entretien
(5 Episodes, Radio interview in French) **

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(TV interview in French) ** Canal+ Jack (uploaded on May 24, 2022
De "37,2 le matin" à "L'Amant", Gabriel Yared refait son cinéma
(in French) ** Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne (March 2022
interview

Masterclass
(in French) **

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(2020) (in French) article: the961.com (May 25, 2022
Gabriel Yared Was Honored At The Cannes Film Festival
** Marrakech International Film Festival (November 2022
« In Conversation With… » GABRIEL YARED
(in French) ** Piano Jazz Concept (2024
Gabriel Yared: « Toute contrainte est source de liberté. »
(interview in French) ** Ricardo Karam
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