Maurice Jarre

Adventurous and prolific French composer whose film scores for David Lean won three Oscars'My life has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life," surmised the French composer Maurice Jarre, who has died of cancer, aged 84. That impulse resulted in three Academy awards winner for best movie score - Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984) - and nominations for six others in the course of more than 150 soundtracks, in addition to incid...

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