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Biography
Unreliable sources|date=January 2012 Gabriel Yared (born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanon|Lebanese composer , best known for his work in French and American film|cinema .
Born in Beirut , Lebanon , his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel (film)|Camille Claudel . He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella . He won an Academy Awards|Oscar and a Grammy Award for his work on The English Patient (film)|The English Patient (1996) and was also nominated for The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)|The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Cold Mountain (film)|Cold Mountain (2003).
Biography
At the age of 7, his father sent Yared to an accordion teacher. Two years later he stopped his accordion lessons and started music theory and piano lessons. His piano teacher thought that he had no future in music.
Although he was not a natural pianist, he was interested in reading music.
At the age of 14, his piano teacher died, so he was to replace him as the organist of Université Saint-Joseph . He used the university's library to read all the work of Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach , Robert Schumann|Schumann , and many others. This extensive reading inspired his first original composition, a piano waltz .
Yared gained a degree in Law . His formal musical education only began when he travelled to France in 1969, and attended the École Normale de Musique de Paris as a non-registered student. There he learned the rules of music composition from Henri Dutilleux .
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 de Janeiro Song Festival. His song won the first prize.
In Brazil, he kept on performing with his small orchestra. Yared maintains that to this day Brazil has greatly influenced his work.
In 1975, he arranged the album Minacantalucio for the popular Italian singer Mina (singer)|Mina .
He then went back 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.
Not to be limited by orchestrating, he collaborated with Jacques Dutronc , Françoise Hardy , Charles Aznavour , Mireille Mathieu , etc.. He had collaborations with many musicians, and contributed to many radio and TV jingles, such as TF1 news jingles which he has created since 1980.
Film scores
Yared is best known for his collaborations with the late Anthony Minghella . His first collaboration with Minghella was the 1996 film The English Patient (film)|The English Patient , which was highly acclaimed and won him an Oscar for Best Original Score. He composed the scores for all of Mingella's films that followed, as well as the music for the television series ''The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency , created by Minghella and Richard Curtis .
Aside from his work with Minghella, Yared has composed the scores for numerous other films, including City of Angels (film)|City of Angels (1998), Message in a Bottle (film)|Message in a Bottle (1999), Autumn in New York (film)|Autumn in New York (2000), The Next Best Thing (2000), Possession (2002 film)|Possession (2002), and Bon voyage (2003 film)|Bon voyage (2003).
His most recent work is the score to the 2009 film Amelia (film)|Amelia .
Troy soundtrack
In 2004, Yared's score to the movie Troy (film)|Troy (which he had spent nearly a year working on) was rejected (less than a month before the film's opening) due to the poor reception by an audience at a test screening . The test audience were said to have found Yared's music too "brassy and bold". James Horner , the composer of the scores for such films as Braveheart (film)|Braveheart and Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic 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 or mixed properly, and that the studio had given him no opportunity to alter his score in light of the audience reaction.
Horner harshly criticised both Yared's score and Yared personally, calling the score "atrocious", and saying "And it wasn't because Gabriel's not a gifted writer, it's because he just doesn't have any knowledge of writing film scores. Real film scores like that. And it was like -- It was so corny. It was unbelievable." http://boards.theforce.net/star_wars_and_film_music/b10190/25163305/p1/ Jedi Council Forums - A Revealing Interview with James Horner The Director's Cut DVD had one cue re-inserted for a funeral scene (a experimental female vocal piece, featured twice in his score).Citation needed|date=January 2012 Warner Bros. studio still currently 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 privte promotional CD).Citation needed|date=January 2012 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." http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/troy.html Filmtracks: Troy (Gabriel Yared/James Horner)
A film about Gabriel Yared's life Music By... Gabriel Yared by director Rani Khanna has now been released on DVD.When|date=January 2012
Selected filmography
Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) Music
Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois!! (1985) Music
The Tourist (2010 film)|The Tourist (2010) Original music - Score rejected; replaced by James Newton Howard
Awards
Yared has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score on three occasions. He won for The English Patient (film)|The English Patient in 1996. He was also nominated for The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)|The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Cold Mountain (film)|Cold Mountain (2003), but lost to John Corigliano and Howard Shore , respectively. He has also received three Golden Globe and three BAFTA nominations for the same films, and won both awards for The English Patient (film)|The English Patient .
He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, again winning for The English Patient (film)|The English Patient
Films about him
In the Tracks of Gabriel Yared
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.gabrielyared.com/ Official Site
http://www.buysoundtrax.com/larsons_soundtrax_10-8-07.html/ Interview with Gabriel Yared, on "1408"
AcademyAwardBestOriginalScore 1981-2000BAFTA Award for Best Film Music 1980–1999BAFTA Award for Best Film Music 2000–2019Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score 1990–2009 Use dmy dates|date=February 2011 Persondata | NAME = Yared, Gabriel | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Lebanese composer | DATE OF BIRTH = 7 October 1949 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Yared, Gabriel Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Lebanese composers Category:Film score composers Category:French people of Lebanese descent Category:French people of Arab descent Category:Grammy Award winners Category:European Film Awards winners (people) Category:Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners
