Jean-Claude Petit

Known for SoundBorn 1943-11-14 (age 82)Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

La chanson de l'année

Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur

Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem

Guilty of Innocence

Mother

Jean de Florette

Manon of the Spring

Testament of Orpheus

Cyrano de Bergerac

588 rue Paradis

Les Misérables

Lumumba

Le Caviar rouge

Dalida

Bitter Sugar

The Castle of Olive Trees

Dance with Him

Champs-Elysées

Uranus

Headstrong

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

The Horseman on the Roof

Aristotle's Plot

Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau

The Playboys

The Return of the Musketeers

First Growth

One Summer

Nobody's Children

Deux

A Loving Father

Toujours seuls

Visage

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête

Billy Ze Kick

Vive la sociale !

Slices of Life

Through the Mill

Crime Thief

Tusk

Hôtel Normandy

Rue du Bac

L'Addition

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes

Vent de panique

Foreign Student

Sadness and Beauty

Victoires de la musique