René Cloërec

René Cloërec  1911-1995

René Cloërec

by Jean Noé • 1 July 2022
Born René Albert Philippe Cloërec on 31 May 1911 in Paris, the young René studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Musique de Paris, from which he graduated with a first prize in piano in 1928. He began his career as a pianist and then as a music hall conductor. But very quickly, his passion for the cinema won out... At the beginning of the 1940s, the filmmaker Claude Autant-Lara asked him to compose the music for his film DOUCE. The two became an inseparable duo and the composer wrote the music for all his next films: SYLVIE ET LE FANTÔME in 1946, OCCUPE-TOI D'AMÉLIE in 1949 and LE MEURTRIER in 1963.

An Interview with René Cloërec

by Stéphane Lerouge • 30 June 2022
On December 13, 1995, René Cloërec entered forever into the annals of cinema. A pioneer of film music, it didn't take long for his talent to be associated with the major productions and auteur films that have now become "classics" of the golden age of French cinema. Solicited by the leading directors of the time, he composed for René Clément (LE PERE TRANQUILLE), Jean Delannoy (DIEU A BESOIN DES HOMMES), Jean Dréville (LES CASSE-PIEDS, LA CAGE AUX ROSSIGNOLS) and, of course, for Claude Autant-Lara (LE DIABLE AU CORPS, LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR, LA TRAVERSEE DE PARIS, L'AUBERGE ROUGE, LA JUMENT VERTE). A prolific musician, he also worked for variety shows (with Edith Piaf), advertising and "Sons et Lumières". In order to pay tribute to him, we are publishing extracts from an interview conducted a few days before his death and recently published in the French magazine Notes. – Yves Taillandier
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