Jean-Claude Petit

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-11-14 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France

Jean-Claude Petit

Biography

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 broad...

Production

1986

Jean de Florette

as Original Music Composer

1986

Manon of the Spring

as Original Music Composer

2017

Dalida

as Original Music Composer

1992

Guilty of Innocence

as Original Music Composer

1990

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Original Music Composer

1995

The Horseman on the Roof

as Original Music Composer

1990

Uranus

as Original Music Composer

1989

The Return of the Musketeers

as Original Music Composer

1994

Foreign Student

as Original Music Composer

1992

The Playboys

as Original Music Composer

2013

Hôtel Normandy

as Original Music Composer

1987

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes

as Original Music Composer

2003

Simon le juste

as Original Music Composer

2006

One Summer

as Original Music Composer

2006

One Summer

as Orchestrator

1994

Nobody's Children

as Original Music Composer

2007

1998

Bitter Sugar

as Music

1969

Crime Thief

as Conductor

1985

1984

L'Addition

as Original Music Composer

1991

Rue du Bac

as Music

2015

First Growth

as Original Music Composer

1997

Aristotle's Plot

as Original Music Composer

1987

1989

Headstrong

as Original Music Composer

1985

Sadness and Beauty

as Original Music Composer

1989

Deux

as Original Music Composer

2002

A Loving Father

as Original Music Composer

1983

Vive la sociale !

as Original Music Composer

1980

Tusk

as Original Music Composer

2000

Lumumba

as Original Music Composer

1992

588 rue Paradis

as Original Music Composer

1991

Mother

as Original Music Composer

1994

Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem

as Original Music Composer

1996

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

as Original Music Composer

1985

Slices of Life

as Original Music Composer

1999

Paddy

as Original Music Composer

1986

Le Caviar rouge

as Original Music Composer

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