Sound
Vladimir Cosma
FR, RU, EN, NL cinema · 169 credits
Born
13 April 1940 (age 86)
Birthplace
Bucharest, Romania
Also known as Miroslav Cadim · Wladimir Coma · Wladimir Cosma · Richard Eldwyn · C. Pïmper · C. Pinter
Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist. He was born 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 Ferruccio 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 supérieur 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 d'été for symphony orchestra, Oblique for violoncello and string orchestra, music for theatre and ballet (Volpone for the Comédie Française, the opera Fantômas...). In 1968, Yves Robert entrusted him with his first film music for Alexandre le Bienheureux. Vladimir Cosma has since composed more than three hundred scores for feature films and TV series. His numerous successes in the cinema have notably been in collaboration with Yves Robert, Gérard Oury, Francis Veber, Claude Pinoteau, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Claude Zidi, Ettore Scola, Pascal Thomas, Pierre Richard, Yves Boisset, André Cayatte, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Edouard Molinaro, Jean-Marie Poiré... and among which: Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, Diva, Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, La Boum, le Bal, l'As des As, la Chèvre, Les Fugitifs, Les Zozos, Pleure pas la bouche pleine, Dupont Lajoie, Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, La Dérobade, Le Père Noël est une ordure, L'Étudiante, La Gloire de mon père, Le Château de ma mère, Le dîner de cons ... Vladimir Cosma also featured in major French and American television productions: Michel Strogoff, Kidnapped, Mistral's Daughter, Châteauvallon, Les Mystères de Paris, Les Cœurs Brûlés... Film music allowed him to approach and develop many different musical styles: jazz (with music written for famous soloists such as Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Don Byas, Stéphane Grappelli, Jean-Luc Ponty, Philip Catherine, Tony Coe, Pepper Adams, la chanson (pour Nana Mouskouri, Marie Laforêt, Richard Sanderson, Diane Dufresne, Herbert Léonard, Mireille Mathieu, Nicole Croisille, Lara Fabian, Guy Marchand), original compositions inspired by folk-music (for Gheorghe Zamfir, Stanciu Simion Syrinx, pan-flute, Liam O'Flynn- pipes, Romane-guitar), as well as classical music (Berlin Concerto for violin and orchestra, Concerto for Euphonium and orchestra, Concerto Ibérique for trumpet and orchestra, Courts Métrages for brass quintet...). ... Source: Article "Vladimir Cosma" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Filmography
The Neverending Party
as Self - Composer
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
as Self - Composer
Tous flics !
Original Music Composer
Piano Cinéma
Original Music Composer
The Red Scarf
Original Music Composer
Let the Girls Play
Original Music Composer
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Film music composer
Mr. Stein Goes Online
Original Music Composer
Vénéneuses
Original Music Composer
Rouges étaient les lilas
Original Music Composer
Le Cabanon rose
Original Music Composer
Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
Original Music Composer
Calomnies
Original Music Composer
Le Mentor
Original Music Composer
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Original Music Composer
Hitler in Hollywood
Original Music Composer
Colère
2010
Colère
Original Music Composer
Climax
Music
13 French Street
Original Music Composer
Les Ballets écarlates
Original Music Composer
Touristes? Oh Yes!
Original Music Composer
A Year in My Life
Original Music Composer
Grabuge!
Original Music Composer
Albert est méchant
Original Music Composer
Le Furet
Original Music Composer
The Closet
Original Music Composer, Conductor
La femme du boulanger
Original Music Composer
The News Puppets
Original Music Composer
The Dinner Game
Original Music Composer
Soleil
Original Music Composer
Pierre and Marie
Original Music Composer
Jaguar
Original Music Composer
Dazzle
Original Music Composer
Bonsoir
Original Music Composer
Cache Cash
Original Music Composer
Kitchen with Apartment
Original Music Composer
The Thirst for Gold
Original Music Composer
Ville à vendre
Original Music Composer
The Supper
Original Music Composer
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Original Music Composer
La Femme abandonnée
Original Music Composer
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Original Music Composer
Snow and Fire
Original Music Composer
The Jackpot!
Original Music Composer
La Méthode Barnol
Music Director
My Father's Glory
Original Music Composer
My Mother's Castle
Original Music Composer
Night of the Fox
Original Music Composer
Il gèle en enfer
Original Music Composer
The Student
as Orchestrator (uncredited), Original Music Composer
Nitwits
Music
Promised... sworn!
Original Music Composer
Le Moustachu
Original Music Composer
Asterix in Britain
Original Music Composer
The Fugitives
Original Music Composer
Death on a Rainy Sunday
Original Music Composer
La Galette du roi
Original Music Composer
L'Été 36
1986
L'Été 36
Original Music Composer
Asterix vs. Caesar
Original Music Composer
Just the Way You Are
Original Music Composer
The Seventh Target
Original Music Composer
The Twin
Original Music Composer
The Defective Detective
Original Music Composer
The ComDads
Original Music Composer
Banzaï
Original Music Composer
Le Bal
Music, Music Director
Un adolescent d'autrefois
1983
Un adolescent d'autrefois
Original Music Composer
The Prize of Peril
Original Music Composer
The Party 2
as Self, at the recording studio for Poupette, Original Music Composer
Ace of Aces
Original Music Composer
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Original Music Composer
Diva
Original Music Composer
A Business of Men
Original Music Composer
Why Not Us?
Original Music Composer
La Chèvre
Original Music Composer
The Party
as Composer in studio (uncredited), Original Music Composer
Inspector Blunder
Original Music Composer
Umbrella Coup
Original Music Composer
Courage fuyons
Original Music Composer
Memoirs of a French Whore
Original Music Composer
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Original Music Composer
Heart to Heart
Original Music Composer
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Original Music Composer
The Discord
Original Music Composer
Plein les poches pour pas un rond...
Original Music Composer
Too Shy to Try
Original Music Composer
We Will All Meet in Paradise
as Violinist at Mouchy's party (uncredited), Music
Animal
Original Music Composer
To Each His Hell
Original Music Composer
The Wing or the Thigh?
Original Music Composer
Dracula and Son
Original Music Composer
The Toy
Original Music Composer
Pardon Mon Affaire
Original Music Composer
Scrambled Eggs
Original Music Composer
The Common Man
Original Music Composer
Sherlock Holmes - Le Signe des quatre
1975
Sherlock Holmes - Le Signe des quatre
Original Music Composer
Callaghan : Un rendez-vous dans les ténèbres
1975
Callaghan : Un rendez-vous dans les ténèbres
Original Music Composer
Catherine & Co.
Original Music Composer
The Phoney
Original Music Composer
The Wild Goose Chase
Original Music Composer
The Pink Telephone
Original Music Composer
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Original Music Composer
My Husband, His Mistress and I
Original Music Composer
I'm Losing My Temper
Original Music Composer
The Girl's Dead, Man
Original Music Composer
La Gueule de l’emploi
Original Music Composer
Le Chaud Lapin
Original Music Composer
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Original Music Composer
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Original Music Composer
Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
Original Music Composer
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Original Music Composer
Hail the Artist
Original Music Composer
The Crazy Capo Affair
Original Music Composer
The Madman
Original Music Composer
The Adulteress
Original Music Composer
The Right of the Maddest
Original Music Composer
Les Zozos
Original Music Composer
Neither by Day Nor by Night
Original Music Composer
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Original Music Composer
Chaleurs
Original Music Composer
Distracted
Original Music Composer
Cain from Nowhere
Compositor
Misdeal
Original Music Composer
Clerambard
Original Music Composer
The Death of Joe the Indian
Original Music Composer
Very Happy Alexander
Original Music Composer