2 Quotes & Sayings By Jacques Damboise
Jacques d'Amboise was born in France in 1928. He studied composition under Paul Vidal at the Paris Conservatory of Music. He spent his early career as musical director for the Orson Welles production of Julius Caesar, under Jean Cocteau's direction, for the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. After this, he began his film career, working with Jean-Luc Godard and other French New Wave directors
He was the music editor for François Truffaut's Jules and Jim and collaborated with Michelangelo Antonioni on The Passenger and Blowup. D'Amboise's film scores include The Lovers (1964), The Subject Was Roses (1964), Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and 8 1/2 (1963). His opera, Dante et Virgile (1966), took five years to complete and was performed only once.
In 1971 he composed a symphony to a text by Edgar Allan Poe, which is dedicated to his father, the poet Robert Henri d'Amboise.