Known For
Sound
Born
Nov 14, 1943
Place of Birth
Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France
Credits
56 titles
Jean-Claude Petit
Biography
Jean-Claude Petit (born 14 November 1943) is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. He did the string arrangements for Mink DeVille's Le Chat Bleu album, as well as orchestrating the backing parts to some French pop singles in the mid-to-late 1960s, including those of Erick Saint-Laurent and yé-yé girls Christine Pilzer and Monique Thubert. In 1973 he composed La leçon de Michette. The song was popular in Italy due to its use in the soundtrack of a well-known Carosello (the Italian TV spot broadcast) from 1973 to 1976. As a music ghostwriter for director Michel Magne, Petit did not get credit for his film scores until he was 36. 1979 saw his first major film soundtrack commission (Alexandro Jodorowsky's Tusk), but he had been releasing solo records at least a decade earlier, including at least four for the Chappell Music Library, as well as his album Chez Jean-Claude Petit, released in the early 1970s. In 1976 he collaborated with Pierre Delanoë, Toto Cutugno, Vito Pallavicini in a very popular and funky music for Mireille Mathieu called Ciao Bambino, Sorry. In addition, he was a frequent collaborator with French film music composer Jack Arel: the pair's most well-known production, "Psychedelic Portrait", was featured in an episode of the cult TV series The Prisoner. His highly acclaimed score for Cyrano de Bergerac remains perhaps his best known work internationally. In 1995 he was nominated for a Victoires de la Musique award in soundtrack of the year for L'Etudiante Etranger. Jean Claude conducted and arranged for American Orchestra leader Billy Vaughn in the 1970s: At least two of Billy's Paramount LPs "An Old Fashioned Love Song" PAS 6025 and "Greatest Country Hits" give Jean Claude credit as arranged/conductor. The 'Greatest Country Hits' Lp Paramount PAS 6044 also includes a Jean Claude original "Walk A Country Mile". Source: Article "Jean-Claude Petit" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Self
In The Tracks Of - Special Edition
Self
Through the Mill
Original Music Composer
The Force of Destiny
Self
Dalida
Original Music Composer
First Growth
Original Music Composer
Hôtel Normandy
Original Music Composer
Visage
Music
Dance with Him
Music
One Summer
Original Music Composer
La chanson de l'année
Self
Podium
Original Music Composer
Simon le juste
Original Music Composer
A Loving Father
Original Music Composer
Lumumba
Original Music Composer
Les Misérables
Original Music Composer
Paddy
Original Music Composer
Bitter Sugar
Music
Aristotle's Plot
Original Music Composer
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Original Music Composer
The Horseman on the Roof
Original Music Composer
Bravo la famille
Sound
Foreign Student
Original Music Composer
Nobody's Children
Original Music Composer
Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
Original Music Composer
The Castle of Olive Trees
Original Music Composer
The Dove's Lost Necklace
Music
The Playboys
Original Music Composer
Guilty of Innocence
Original Music Composer
588 rue Paradis
Original Music Composer
Mother
Original Music Composer
Toujours seuls
Pianist
Rue du Bac
Music
Uranus
Original Music Composer
Cyrano de Bergerac
Original Music Composer
Headstrong
Original Music Composer
Deux
Original Music Composer
The Return of the Musketeers
Original Music Composer
Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
Original Music Composer
Lotus Flower
Torpierre
Vent de panique
Original Music Composer
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
Original Music Composer
Manon of the Spring
Original Music Composer
Jean de Florette
Original Music Composer
Le Caviar rouge
Original Music Composer
Billy Ze Kick
Music
Victoires de la musique
Self
Sadness and Beauty
Original Music Composer
Slices of Life
Original Music Composer
L'Addition
Original Music Composer