A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Santa Esmeralda
Birthplace:
Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France
Born:
November 14, 1943
Jean-Claude Petit (born 14 November 1943) is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. He did the string arrangements for Mink DeVille's Le Chat Bleu album, as well as orchestrating the backing parts to some French pop singles in the mid-to-late 1960s, including those of Erick Saint-Laurent and yé-yé girls Christine Pilzer and Monique Thubert. In 1973 he composed La leçon de Michette. The song was popular in Italy due to its use in the soundtrack of a well-known Carosello (the Italian TV spot broadcast) from 1973 to 1976. As a music ghostwriter for director Michel Magne, Petit did not get credit for his film scores until he was 36. 1979 saw his first major film soundtrack commission (Alexandro Jodorowsky's Tusk), but he had been releasing solo records at least a decade earlier, including at least four for the Chappell Music Library, as well as his album Chez Jean-Claude Petit, released in the early 1970s. In 1976 he collaborated with Pierre Delanoë, Toto Cutugno, Vito Pallavicini in a very popular and funky music for Mireille Mathieu called Ciao Bambino, Sorry. In addition, he was a frequent collaborator with French film music composer Jack Arel: the pair's most well-known production, "Psychedelic Portrait", was featured in an episode of the cult TV series The Prisoner. His highly acclaimed score for Cyrano de Bergerac remains perhaps his best known work internationally. In 1995 he was nominated for a Victoires de la Musique award in soundtrack of the year for L'Etudiante Etranger. Jean Claude conducted and arranged for American Orchestra leader Billy Vaughn in the 1970s: At least two of Billy's Paramount LPs "An Old Fashioned Love Song" PAS 6025 and "Greatest Country Hits" give Jean Claude credit as arranged/conductor. The 'Greatest Country Hits' Lp Paramount PAS 6044 also includes a Jean Claude original "Walk A Country Mile". Source: Article "Jean-Claude Petit" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Conductor:
1969 Crime Thief
Music:
1969 Crime Thief
1985 Billy Ze Kick
1985 Slices of Life
1986 Le Caviar rouge
1987 Vent de panique
1989 Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
1991 Mother
1991 Rue du Bac
1992 588 rue Paradis
1998 Sucre amer
2007 Dance with Him
2018 Mélancolie ouvrière
Orchestrator:
1969 Crime Thief
1985 Billy Ze Kick
1985 Slices of Life
1986 Le Caviar rouge
1987 Vent de panique
1989 Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
1991 Mother
1991 Rue du Bac
1992 588 rue Paradis
1998 Sucre amer
2006 One Summer
2007 Dance with Him
2018 Mélancolie ouvrière
Original Music Composer:
1969 Crime Thief
1980 Tusk
1983 Vive la sociale !
1984 L'Addition
1985 Billy Ze Kick
1985 Sadness and Beauty
1985 Slices of Life
1986 Jean de Florette
1986 Le Caviar rouge
1986 Manon of the Spring
1987 Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
1987 Vent de panique
1989 Deux
1989 Headstrong
1989 Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
1989 The Return of the Musketeers
1990 Cyrano de Bergerac
1990 Uranus
1991 Mother
1991 Rue du Bac
1992 588 rue Paradis
1992 Guilty of Innocence
1992 The Playboys
1994 Foreign Student
1994 Nobody's Children
1995 The Horseman on the Roof
1997 Aristotle's Plot
1998 Sucre amer
2000 Lumumba
2002 A Loving Father
2003 Simon le juste
2006 One Summer
2007 Dance with Him
2013 Hôtel Normandy
2015 First Growth
2017 Dalida
2018 Mélancolie ouvrière
Original Music Composer:
1993 The Castle of Olive Trees
2000 Les Misérables
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