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Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist, who has made his career in France and the United States.
He was born into a family of musicians. His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother Carola PimperDaniel Bernard, La Lettre, 26 février 2024 : Vladimir Cosma, virtuose de la comptabilité. — « Ma mère Carola Pimper a composé des musiques sous son nom ou sous pseudonyme ... » a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of Ferruccio Busoni.
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, etc. Films he composed the score for include: 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, , , 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, etc.
Vladimir Cosma has also been featured in major French and American television productions: Michel Strogoff, Kidnapped, Mistral's Daughter, Châteauvallon, Les Mystères de Paris, Les Coeurs brûlés, etc.
Film music allowed him to approach and develop many different musical styles: jazz (with music written for soloists such as Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Don Byas, Stéphane Grappelli, Jean-Luc Ponty, Philip Catherine, Tony Coe, Pepper Adams; chanson (for Nana Mouskouri, Marie Laforêt, Richard Sanderson, Diane Dufresne, Herbert Léonard, Mireille Mathieu, Nicole Croisille, Lara Fabian, Guy Marchand); and 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, etc.)
In 2006 Cosma himself conducted the world premiere of his composition Eh bien ! Dansez maintenant, a divertissement for narrator and symphony orchestra, adapting eleven of La Fontaine's Fables. The work's title refers to the ant's rejoinder to the grasshopper when it comes begging for food in the first of the fables: “You sang all summer? Now go and dance!” In Cosma's interpretation, the recitation of the story is unaccompanied, but each of the fables is illustrated in a different dance measure – from polka to pasodoble, from gavotte to foxtrot. “J'aime le pragmatisme des fables de La Fontaine”, an interview with Vladimir Cosma, Le Temps, 4 May 2006 The first performance of many that followed took place at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Lambert Wilson as narrator. Conducting the Orchestre National de France, he gave a first performance in Paris of this work in December 2010 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, featuring of the Comédie Française.
Vladimir Cosma went on to write the opera Marius et Fanny, adapted from Marcel Pagnol, for which the first production took place in September 2007 at the Opéra de Marseille with Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu in the title roles, as well as Jean-Philippe Lafont in the role of César. The performances were repeated several times on television on the channels Arte and France 3.
In 2008 he composed the music for the musical comedy performed at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, with , Marianne James, Spike, Julie Victor, among others.
In June 2009, Vladimir Cosma conducted the world premiere, in the Eglise Sainte-Madeleine de Béziers, of his cantata 1209, for soprano, narrator, children's choir and orchestra, written especially for the 8th centenary of the Sac de Béziers.
He is dedicated to re-writing his film music with the intention of conducting performances in symphonic concerts, thus approaching a wider audience than at the cinema . Among others, he gave a concert in Geneva in 2003 with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, a series of concerts in 2003 with the Orchestre National de Lyon, three concerts in 2005 in Paris at the Grand Rex, and a concert in 2010 with the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
He has also appeared in many countries with major symphony orchestras and such prestigious soloists as Ivry Gitlis, Vadim Repin, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Patrice Fontanarosa, Jean-Luc Ponty, Didier Lockwood, Stanciu Simion, Philip Catherine and others. A book of interviews with Vincent Perrot entitled Vladimir Cosma comme au cinéma was published in 2009 in the Editions Hors Collection and an anthology of his film music regrouping 91 complete original soundtracks in two volumes has just come out. Two evenings were devoted to him by the French TV channel, France 3 in 2010, airing his concert at the Théâtre du Châtelet and a documentary Vladimir Cosma intime.
Vladimir Cosma received two Césars for the best movie score, for Diva (1982) and Le Bal (1984), two Golden Sevens for the best music for television, as well as a number of prizes and awards in France and other countries. He has also obtained numerous gold and platinum records all over the world (France, Germany, Japan, England, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia). Vladimir Cosma is Chevalier de l'ordre National la Légion d'Honneur, as well as Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. He has also been awarded the Romanian Ordinul "Meritul cultural" în grad de Cavaler.
| Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde | Music by Michel Legrand and Cosma |
| Oum le dauphin blanc | Co-composed music with Michel Legrand, arrangements and orchestral direction. |
| But | |
| Alexandre le bienheureux | |
| Maldonne (English language: Misgift) | |
| Les Prisonniers de la liberté | |
| ( Scouting Patrol) | Arrangements and orchestral direction |
| Pour un amour lointain | Arrangements and orchestral direction |
| Clérambard | |
| Appelez-moi Mathilde | Arrangements and orchestral direction |
| Le Miroir de la terre (English: The mirror of the earth) | |
| Le Distrait | |
| Térésa | |
| Caïn de nulle part | |
| Les Malheurs d'Alfred | |
| Tang | |
| Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire | |
| Les Zozos | |
| Les Félines | |
| Neither by Day Nor by Night | |
| L'Affaire Crazy Capo | |
| Pleure pas la bouche pleine | |
| La dernière bourrée à Paris | |
| Les Grands Sentiments font les bons gueuletons | |
| Salut l'artiste | |
| La Raison du plus fou | With Raymond Devos |
| Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob | |
| Le Dingue | |
| Les Grands Détectives | |
| La Main enchantée | |
| La Rivale | |
| Le Chaud Lapin | |
| La Moutarde me monte au nez | |
| La Gueule de l'emploi | |
| Le Retour du Grand Blond | |
| La Virée superbe | |
| Dupont Lajoie | |
| La Course à l'échalote | |
| Catherine et Cie | |
| Le Faux-cul | |
| Le Téléphone Rose | |
| Adios | |
| Hugues-le-Loup | |
| TF1 | Channel and news broadcast theme. |
| Cinéma du Dimanche | Theme |
| Les Œufs brouillés | |
| La Surprise du chef | |
| Le Jouet | |
| Un éléphant ça trompe énormément | |
| Dracula père et fils | |
| L'Aile ou la Cuisse | |
| A chacun son enfer | Autopsy of a monster |
| Michel Strogoff | |
| Le Collectionneur de cerveaux | Les Robots pensants |
| L'Assassinat de Concino Concini | |
| Les Mystères de Loudun | |
| Silence ...on tourne | |
| Le Chien de Monsieur Michel | |
| Nous irons tous au paradis | |
| Un Oursin dans la poche | |
| Animal | |
| Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine | |
| La Mer promise | |
| Les Confessions d'un enfant de Cœur | |
| Vaincre à Olympie | |
| Les Filles de Malemort | |
| Où vont les poissons rouges ? | |
| Richelieu | |
| Enquête posthume sur un vaisseau fantôme | |
| Les Jeunes Filles | |
| Le Loup blanc | |
| L'Affaire des poisons | |
| La Zizanie | |
| La Raison d'Etat | |
| Je suis timide... mais je me soigne | |
| Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses ! | |
| Confidences pour confidences | |
| L'Enlèvement du Régent | Le Chevalier d'Harmental |
| Madame le juge - Episode n°1: Le Dossier Françoise Muller | |
| Les Grandes Conjurations – Episode: Le Connétable de Bourbon | |
| Histoires insolites. Episode 1: La Stratégie du serpent | |
| Plein les poches pour pas un rond | |
| L'Equipage | |
| Médecins de nuit | |
| La Dérobade | |
| Courage - Let's Run | |
| C'est pas moi c'est lui | |
| Ils sont grands ces petits | |
| Histoires de voyous: Les Marloupins | |
| Histoires de voyous: La Belle Affaire | |
| La Servante | |
| La Belle vie | |
| Duos sur canapé | |
| Les Aventures de David Balfour | |
| La Fabrique, un conte de Noël | |
| Le Baiser au lépreux | |
| Sam et Sally | |
| Sam et Sally |
| + 1980s ! Year !! Title !English title!! Creators !! Type !! Notes | |
| La Femme enfant | L'Ombre du loup by Raphaële Billetdoux |
| Inspecteur la Bavure | |
| Diva | César for Best Film Music |
| Le Bar du téléphone | |
| La Boum | |
| Celles qu'on a pas eues | |
| Le Coup du parapluie | |
| Laat de Dokter maar schuiven | |
| L'Antichambre | |
| Petit déjeuner compris | |
| Les Mystères de Paris | |
| Les Roses de Dublin | |
| Les Maîtres sonneurs | |
| Les Sous-doués en vacances | |
| Une Affaire d'hommes | |
| Pourquoi pas nous ? | |
| La Chèvre | |
| L'Année prochaine... si tout va bien | |
| La Grande Pitié du Comte de Gruyère | |
| La Double vie de Théophraste Longuet | |
| La Vie des autres | L'Ascension de Catherine Sarrazin |
| Pollufission 2000 | |
| La Guerre des insectes | |
| Jamais avant le mariage | |
| Le Père Noël est une ordure | |
| La Boum 2 | |
| Tout le monde peut se tromper | |
| L'As des as | |
| L'Adieu aux As | |
| Les Dames à la licorne | |
| La Veuve rouge | |
| Un Adolescent d'autrefois | |
| Le Bal | César for Best Film Music |
| Le Prix du danger | |
| Banzaï | |
| Les Compères | |
| P'tit Con | |
| L'Etincelle | |
| Retenez moi... ou je fais un malheur ! | |
| Biniky le Dragon Rose | Theme song |
| La Chambre des dames | |
| La Jeune femme en vert | |
| La Septième Cible | |
| Just The Way You Are | |
| Le Jumeau | |
| La Tête dans le sac | |
| Billet doux | |
| L'Homme de Suez | |
| L'Amour en héritage | Mistral's Daughter |
| La Bavure | |
| Hello Einstein | Einstein |
| Châteauvallon | |
| Les Rois du gag | |
| Astérix et la surprise de César | |
| Le Gaffeur | |
| Drôle de samedi | |
| La Galette du roi | |
| Les Mondes engloutis | |
| Mort un dimanche de pluie | |
| Les Fugitifs | |
| Asterix in Britain | |
| L'Été 36 | |
| Claire | |
| Le Tiroir secret | |
| Vive la Comédie | |
| Tour de France | |
| Le Moustachu | |
| Cœurs croisés | |
| Promis... juré ! | |
| La Petite Allumeuse | |
| L'Or noir de Lornac | |
| Rahan, le fils des âges farouches | |
| Nitwits | |
| L'Etudiante | |
| Corps z'à corps | |
| La Vouivre | |
| Les Pique-assiettes | |
| M'as-tu vu ? | |
| Julien Fontanes Magistrat | Episode La Bête noire |
| Il gèle en enfer | |
| Les Grandes Familles | |
| L'Eté de la révolution | |
| Till We Meet Again | Le Secret de Château Valmont |
| Les Sœurs du Nord | SOS Disparus |
| Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin | |
| Mésaventures | 161 x 26' |
| Intrigues | 187 x 26' |
| La Gloire de mon père | |
| Le Château de ma mère | |
| La Pagaille | |
| La Belle anglaise 2 | TV series, 6 x 52' |
| Night of the Fox - Le Complot du Renard | TV films, 2 x 90' |
| Edouard et ses filles | TV series, 6 x 55' |
| The Nighmare Years - Les Années infernales | TV series, 4 x 90' |
| – Le Pavé du Gorille | TV film |
| Le Déjeuner de Sousceyrac | TV film |
| Passions | TV series, 57 x 26' |
| Côté cœur | TV series, 68 x 26' |
| La Neige et le Feu | |
| Myster Mocky présente:La Méthode Barnol | TV film |
| Myster Mocky présente:Dis-moi qui tu hais | TV film |
| Myster Mocky présente:La Vérité qui tue | TV film |
| La Totale! | |
| La Montre, la croix et la manière - The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish | |
| Ville à vendre | |
| Coup de jeune | |
| Le Souper | |
| Les Cœurs brûlés | TV series |
| La Femme abandonnée | TV film |
| Cuisine et Dépendances | |
| Le Mari de Léon | |
| La Soif de l'or | |
| Mercedes mon amour | |
| Le Boeuf clandestin | TV film |
| Trois jours pour gagner | TV series, 13 x 27' |
| Montparnasse-Pondichéry | |
| Bonsoir | |
| Cache Cash | |
| L'Affaire | |
| Les Yeux d'Hélène | TV series, 9 x 90' |
| Dazzle - Les Racines du Coeur | TV mini-series, 2 x 90' |
| Les Sables mouvants | |
| Les Nouveaux exploits d'Arsène Lupin | TV series |
| Le Jaguar | |
| Le Plus Beau Métier du monde | |
| Les Palmes de monsieur Schutz | |
| Faisons un rêve | TV film |
| Le Cheval de coeur | TV film |
| Berjac: Coup de maître | TV film |
| Berjac: Coup de théâtre | TV film |
| Soleil | |
| Drôle de père | TV film |
| Maître da Costa – Episode: Le Doigt de Dieu | TV |
| Le Dîner de cons | |
| La Femme du Boulanger | TV film |
| Le Schpountz | |
| Le fils du Français | |
| Le Monde à l'envers | TV mini-series, 2 x 90' |
| La Fiction des Guignols | TV film |
| Voleur de cœur | TV film |
| La Vache et le Président | |
| La Trilogie Marseillaise: Marius, Fanny, César | TV mini-series, 3 x 95' |
| Le Placard | |
| Le Monde à l'envers – Episode 3: Le Secret d'Alice | TV |
| Les Homards de l'utopie - Marche et rêve ! | |
| Clémy | TV film |
| Action justice - Episode 1: Une mère indigne | TV |
| Le Furet | |
| Action justice - Episode 2: Un mauvais médecin | TV |
| Action justice - Episode 3: Déclaré coupable | TV |
| Albert est méchant | |
| Le Président Ferrare | TV series |
| Touristes, Oh yes ! | |
| Grabuge | |
| Les Ballets écarlates | |
| Le Bénévole | |
| Le Temps des porte-plumes | |
| Le Deal | |
| 13, French Street | |
| Myster Mocky présente | TV series |
| Myster Mocky présente | TV series |
| Climax | short film |
| Colère | TV film |
| Myster Mocky présente | TV series |
| Les Insomniaques | |
| Crédit pour tous | |
| Myster Mocky présente | TV series |
| Le dossier Toroto | |
| Calomnies | |
| Hitler à Hollywood ( H/H) |
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