Vladimir Cosma

Vladimir Cosma

Born: April 13, 1940
in Bucharest, Romania
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...). ...

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Movies for Vladimir Cosma...

Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
Title: Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
Character: Self - Composer
Released: January 26, 2023
Type: Movie
On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the death of Louis de Funès, this documentary by Jacques Pessis pays tribute to the cult actor by retracing his career through excerpts of his greatest successes in the cinema and in the music hall, never-before-seen archives, as well as testimonies from personalities and relatives.
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The Neverending Party
Title: The Neverending Party
Character: Self - Composer
Released: January 20, 2023
Type: Movie
A look-back at popular French movie "La Boum" (The Party).
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Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
Title: Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
Released: September 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Great actors have interpreted, in the theater or in the cinema, the roles of François Pignon or François Perrin. But the one who, without any doubt, knew how to give him his letters of nobility on the big screen was Pierre Richard who interpreted seven times the characters of Perrin and Pignon. Two cult characters from the imagination of the famous director and screenwriter Francis Veber. For 15 years, the collaboration of the Pierre Richard-Francis Veber duo offered huge public and popular successes that have stood the test of time and entered the pantheon of the greatest French comedies.
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Title: À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character: Self - Compositeur de musiques
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Vladimir Cosma, tout pour la musique
Title: Vladimir Cosma, tout pour la musique
Released: November 2, 2012
Type: Movie
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Belmondo, itinéraire...
Title: Belmondo, itinéraire...
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 2011
Type: Movie
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Title: Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.
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The Student
Title: The Student
Character: Orchestrator (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1988
Type: Movie
An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.
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The Party 2
Title: The Party 2
Character: Lui-même, au studio d'enregristrement pour Poupette
Released: December 8, 1982
Type: Movie
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
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The Party
Title: The Party
Character: Lui-même, au studio d'enregristrement (non crédité)
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
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We Will All Meet in Paradise
Title: We Will All Meet in Paradise
Character: Violinist at Mouchy's party (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, he and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price.