Antoine Duhamel

Antoine Duhamel in 2008.Antoine Duhamel (30 July 1925 – 11 September 2014) was a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher.

Life and career Born in Valmondois in the Val-d'Oise département of France, Antoine Duhamel was one of the three sons of the French writer Georges Duhamel and actress Blanche Albane. He studied music at the Sorbonne. He was a pupil of René Leibowitz, an exponent of Arnold Schoenberg’s dodecaphonic and serial method of composing. Together with other Leibowitz pupils, Serge Nigg, André Casanova and Jean Prodromidès, he gave the first performance of Leibowitz's Explications des Metaphors, Op. 15, in Paris in 1948. He wrote the score for his first film in 1960, going on to work with many of Europe's film directors. In 2002 he was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his music for the Bertrand Tavernier directed film, Laissez-passer.

Duhamel scored several of Jean-Luc Godard's films, including Pierrot le Fou and Week End. He died at the age of 89 in September 2014.

Partial filmography 1963 : Méditerranée 1964 : The Pit and the Pendulum 1965 : Pierrot le Fou 1966 : Trap for the Assassin 1966 : La Longue marche 1966: La Voleuse 1967 : The Sailor from Gibraltar 1967 : Weekend 1968 : Stolen Kisses 1969 : Mississippi Mermaid 1970 : Bed and Board 1970 : The Cop 1971 : M comme Mathieu 1973 : Frank en Eva 1974 : Dakota 1978 : The Song of Roland 1979 : Mais ou et donc Ornicar 1979 : Return to the Beloved 1980 : Death Watch 1989 : El sueño del mono loco 1990 : Daddy Nostalgie 1994 : La Piste du télégraphe 1996 : Ridicule 1998 : The Girl of Your Dreams 2002 : Safe Conduct