La Belle et la Bête (film score)

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La Belle et la Bête is Georges Auric’s acclaimed orchestral film score for Jean Cocteau’s 1946 cinematic adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film score
orchestral work
associatedCharacter Beast
Beauty
associatedWith French cinema
poetic fantasy film
basedOn Beauty and the Beast
traditional fairy tale
composedFor La Belle et la Bête (1946 film)
composedForDirector Jean Cocteau
composer Georges Auric
composerBirthName Georges Auric
composerNationality French
countryOfOrigin France
criticalReception acclaimed
era 20th century
filmCountryOfOrigin France
filmDirector Jean Cocteau
filmReleaseYear 1946
genre classical music
film score
orchestral music
hasComposerCollaborationHistoryWithDirector Georges Auric – Jean Cocteau collaborations
influencedBy French symphonic tradition
contemporary film music of the 1940s
intendedUse accompany motion picture
linkedToArtMovement French poetic realism
surrealist-influenced cinema
medium orchestra
movement orchestral cues
notableElement lyrical themes
motivic writing
orchestral color
notableFor collaboration between Georges Auric and Jean Cocteau
originalAudience cinema-going public
originalLanguage French
partOf French film music
setting fantasy world
style 20th-century classical
French modernism
subjectMatter Beauty and the Beast fairy tale
title La Belle et la Bête
usedIn La Belle et la Bête (1946 film)
workType narrative film score
yearOfFirstUse 1946

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Georges Auric notableWork La Belle et la Bête (film score)
Charles de Noailles notableWork La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau film he supported)
linked to: La Belle et la Bête (film score)
Georges Auric notableWork La Belle et la Bête (film score)
subject linked to: Auric