Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Germaine Tailleferre, Georges Auric, Michel Legrand, Roger Desormiere, Vladimir Cosma, Alexandre Desplat, Maurice Jarre, Thomas Bangalter, Jacques Ibert, Yann Tiersen, Alexandre Tansman, Bruno Coulais, Air, Michel Colombier, Marcel Delannoy, Kamil Rustam, Henri Casadesus, Georges Delerue, Jerome Leroy, DJ Mehdi, Claude Arrieu, Jean Wiener, Francis Lai, Eric Serra, Henri Rabaud, Andre Hossein, Francois de Roubaix, Pascal Comelade, William Sheller, Michel Magne, Martial Solal, Eric Demarsan, Joseph Kosma, Tony Aubin, Regis Wargnier, Jean-Claude Petit, Paul Misraki, Jean-Pascal Beintus, Marius Constant, Michel Portal, Pierre Yves Lenik, Philippe Sarde, Dominique Dalcan, Alain Lanty, Leo Daniderff, Marcel Landowski, Roger Roger, Frederic Botton, Georges Van Parys, Antoine Duhamel, Sebastien Schuller, Krishna Levy, Mister Bark, Hubert Rostaing, Rene Cloerec, Kraked Unit, Alain Romans, Bernard Gerard, Jacques Denjean, Laurent Levesque, Frederic Talgorn. Excerpt: Vladimir Cosma was born April 13, 1940 in Bucharest, Romania, 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 Ferrucio 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 Superieur 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...