Vladimir Cosma

Born April 13, 1940 · Bucharest, Romania

Biography

Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist. He was born into a family of musicians. His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferruccio Busoni. After receiving first prizes for violin and composition at the Bucharest Conservatoire of Music, he arrived in Paris in 1963 and continued his studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, working with Nadia Boulanger. As well as for classical music, he discovered early on a passion for jazz, film music and all forms of popular music. From 1964 he made a number of international tours as a concert violinist and began to devote himself more and more to composing. He wrote various compositions including: Trois mouvements d'été for symphony orchestra, Oblique for violoncello and string orchestra, music for theatre and ballet (Volpone for the Comédie Française, the opera Fantômas...). In 1968, Yves Robert entrusted him with his first film music for Alexandre le Bienheureux. Vladimir Cosma has since composed more than three hundred scores for feature films and TV series. His numerous successes in the cinema have notably been in collaboration with Yves Robert, Gérard Oury, Francis Veber, Claude Pinoteau, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Claude Zidi, Ettore Scola, Pascal Thomas, Pierre Richard, Yves Boisset, André Cayatte, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Edouard Molinaro, Jean-Marie Poiré... and among which: Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, Diva, Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, La Boum, le Bal, l'As des As, la Chèvre, Les Fugitifs, Les Zozos, Pleure pas la bouche pleine, Dupont Lajoie, Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, La Dérobade, Le Père Noël est une ordure, L'Étudiante, La Gloire de mon père, Le Château de ma mère, Le dîner de cons ... Vladimir Cosma also featured in major French and American television productions: Michel Strogoff, Kidnapped, Mistral's Daughter, Châteauvallon, Les Mystères de Paris, Les Cœurs Brûlés... Film music allowed him to approach and develop many different musical styles: jazz (with music written for famous soloists such as Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Don Byas, Stéphane Grappelli, Jean-Luc Ponty, Philip Catherine, Tony Coe, Pepper Adams, la chanson (pour Nana Mouskouri, Marie Laforêt, Richard Sanderson, Diane Dufresne, Herbert Léonard, Mireille Mathieu, Nicole Croisille, Lara Fabian, Guy Marchand), original compositions inspired by folk-music (for Gheorghe Zamfir, Stanciu Simion Syrinx, pan-flute, Liam O'Flynn- pipes, Romane-guitar), as well as classical music (Berlin Concerto for violin and orchestra, Concerto for Euphonium and orchestra, Concerto Ibérique for trumpet and orchestra, Courts Métrages for brass quintet...). ... Source: Article "Vladimir Cosma" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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2020s

2023
Tous flics !
Original Music Composer
Life Lessons
Music
2022
Piano Cinéma
Original Music Composer
2020
The Red Scarf
Original Music Composer

2010s

2018
Let the Girls Play
Original Music Composer
2017
Vénéneuses
Original Music Composer
Mr. Stein Goes Online
Original Music Composer
2016
Rouges étaient les lilas
Original Music Composer
Le Cabanon rose
Original Music Composer
2015
Le Magicien et les Siamois
Music
Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
Original Music Composer
2014
Calomnies
Original Music Composer
2013
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Original Music Composer
Le Mentor
Original Music Composer
2011
Hitler in Hollywood
Original Music Composer
Les Insomniaques
Music
Crédit pour tous
Music

2000s

2009
Climax
Music
Un risque à courir
Music
2007
13 French Street
Original Music Composer
Les Ballets écarlates
Original Music Composer
Touristes? Oh Yes!
Original Music Composer
2006
A Year in My Life
Original Music Composer
2005
Grabuge!
Original Music Composer
2004
Albert est méchant
Original Music Composer
2003
Le Furet
Original Music Composer
2001
The Closet
Original Music Composer, Conductor
73

1990s

1999
The Frenchman's Son
Music
La femme du boulanger
Original Music Composer
The News Puppets
Original Music Composer
1998
The Dinner Game
Original Music Composer
75
1997
Soleil
Original Music Composer
Pierre and Marie
Original Music Composer
1996
The Best Job in the World
Music
Jaguar
Original Music Composer
1995
Dazzle
Original Music Composer
Dazzle
Original Music Composer
1994
L'Affaire
Music
Cache Cash
Original Music Composer
Bonsoir
Original Music Composer
1993
The Thirst for Gold
Original Music Composer
Kitchen with Apartment
Original Music Composer
1992
The Supper
Original Music Composer
La Femme abandonnée
Original Music Composer
Ville à vendre
Original Music Composer
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Original Music Composer
1991
The Jackpot!
Original Music Composer
Snow and Fire
Original Music Composer
La Méthode Barnol
Music Director
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Original Music Composer
1990
Night of the Fox
Original Music Composer
My Mother's Castle
Original Music Composer
74
My Father's Glory
Original Music Composer
Il gèle en enfer
Original Music Composer

1980s

1989
Les Grandes Familles
Original Music Composer
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
Music
Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin
Sound
La Vouivre
Music
1988
The Student
Original Music Composer
58
1987
Promised... sworn!
Original Music Composer
Rahan, fils des ages farouches
Music Director
Nitwits
Music
Le Moustachu
Original Music Composer
Levy & Goliath
Music
1986
The Fugitives
Original Music Composer
69
Le Tiroir secret
Music
Asterix in Britain
Original Music Composer
70
Death on a Rainy Sunday
Original Music Composer
La Galette du roi
Original Music Composer
47
1985
La Poudre aux yeux
Sound
Le Gaffeur
Music
Drôle de samedi
Music
Asterix vs. Caesar
Original Music Composer
67
Châteauvallon
Original Music Composer
Edgar et sa bonne - Voyage autour de ma marmite
Music
1984
The Seventh Target
Original Music Composer
63
Just the Way You Are
Original Music Composer
The Twin
Original Music Composer
Billet doux
Original Music Composer
Mistral's Daughter
Music
L'Homme de Suez
Original Music Composer
L'Étincelle
Music
Petit Con
Music
The Defective Detective
Original Music Composer
1983
La Chambre des dames
Original Music Composer
Le Bal
Music, Music Director
The ComDads
Original Music Composer
68
Banzaï
Original Music Composer
Tout le monde peut se tromper
Music
The Prize of Peril
Original Music Composer
1982
The Party 2
Original Music Composer
63
Ace of Aces
Original Music Composer
67
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Original Music Composer
صورة عائلية
Sound
1981
La Chèvre
Original Music Composer
67
Les Roses de Dublin
Music
A Business of Men
Original Music Composer
Secrets of the Satin Blues
Music
Next Year If All Goes Well
Music
Why Not Us?
Original Music Composer
Diva
Original Music Composer
77
The Ones That Got Away
Music
The Collector of Brains
Music
1980
The Party
Original Music Composer
67
Inspector Blunder
Original Music Composer
Les Mystères de Paris
Music
Umbrella Coup
Original Music Composer
67
Laat de dokter maar schuiven
Music
Petit déjeuner compris
Original Music Composer
Les Maîtres sonneurs
Music

1970s

1979
Courage fuyons
Original Music Composer
Memoirs of a French Whore
Original Music Composer
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Original Music Composer
Kidnapped
Original Music Composer
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Original Music Composer
Heart to Heart
Original Music Composer
1978
Plein les poches pour pas un rond...
Original Music Composer
Too Shy to Try
Original Music Composer
State Reasons
Music
The Discord
Original Music Composer
64
1977
Le Loup blanc
Original Music Composer
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Music
Richelieu
Music
Animal
Original Music Composer
64
To Each His Hell
Original Music Composer
Mr. Michel's Dog
Music
1976
The Toy
Original Music Composer
73
The Wing or the Thigh?
Original Music Composer
72
Pardon Mon Affaire
Original Music Composer
Adios
Original Music Composer
Dracula and Son
Original Music Composer
55
La Surprise du chef
Music
Scrambled Eggs
Original Music Composer
1975
Michael Strogoff
Original Music Composer
Catherine & Co.
Original Music Composer
The Pink Telephone
Original Music Composer
The Phoney
Original Music Composer
The Wild Goose Chase
Original Music Composer
The Common Man
Original Music Composer
1974
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Original Music Composer
66
I'm Losing My Temper
Original Music Composer
My Husband, His Mistress and I
Original Music Composer
Le Chaud Lapin
Original Music Composer
La Gueule de l’emploi
Original Music Composer
The Girl's Dead, Man
Original Music Composer
1973
Hail the Artist
Original Music Composer
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Original Music Composer
Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
Original Music Composer
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Original Music Composer
74
The Crazy Capo Affair
Original Music Composer
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Original Music Composer
The Adulteress
Original Music Composer
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Music
The Madman
Original Music Composer
The Right of the Maddest
Original Music Composer
Les Zozos
Original Music Composer
1972
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Original Music Composer
70
The Felines
Music
Neither by Day Nor by Night
Original Music Composer
1971
Chaleurs
Original Music Composer
1970
Distracted
Original Music Composer