Maurice Thiriet was a French composer of classical and film music.

Biography

Born in Meulan

Meulan

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, Yvelines

Yvelines

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, he entered the Paris conservatory in 1925 to study counterpoint and fugue with Charles Koechlin

Charles Koechlin

Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...

 and orchestration and arrangement under Alexis Roland-Manuel

Alexis Roland-Manuel

Alexis Roland-Manuel was a French composer and critic, though he is remembered mainly for his work in the latter area.-Biography:...

. He graduated in 1931. During the forties Thiriet carved his career within film music, inspired by fellow composer Maurice Jaubert

Maurice Jaubert

Maurice Jaubert was a French composer of incidental music for stage and film music, famous for his collaborations with the masters of poetic realism Jean Vigo, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné...

 (who died in World War II), and wrote something like twenty scores from 1942 to 1960.
Apart from his film work, Thiriet also composed several concert works, including a Flute concerto, ten ballets and two operas. His style, which was influenced by Jaubert and Roland-Manuel, is characterized by taught construction and modest, nearly impressionistic harmonization and often bears a classical grace not unlike that of Francis Poulenc

Francis Poulenc

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 and Jean Françaix

Jean Françaix

Jean René Désiré Françaix was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.-Life:...

Stage and Dramatic

• La Bourgois de Falaise, opera (1937)
• Psychè, ballet (1950)
• Herakles, ballet (1953)
• Oedipe-roi, for speaker and orchestra (1940–41)

Orchestra

• Le Livre pour Jean (1929)
• Rhapsody on Inca Themes (1935)
• Poem, for strings (1936)
• La Nuit Fantasque (1941)

Concertante

• Introduction, Chanson et Ronde, harp and orchestra (1936)
• Flute Concerto, flute and string orchestra (1959)