Antoine Duhamel

Antoine Duhamel studied at Faculty of Arts of Paris and Conservatoire de Paris. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is film score and contemporary classical music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Positions recorded include president.

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.

• 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