Maurice Thiriet

Born in Meulan, Yvelines, he honed his craft at the Paris Conservatory between 1925 and 1931, studying counterpoint and fugue under Charles Koechlin and learning orchestration from Alexis Roland-Manuel. Though he composed concert pieces such as a flute concerto, twelve ballets and three operas, his reputation rests chiefly on a prolific film-scoring career that yielded around seventy soundtracks f… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources