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# Jean-Claude Petit

## Identity

Jean-Claude Petit

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-claude-petit
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-claude-petit
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006223
- **TMDB ID:** 37187
- **Wikidata ID:** Q327866
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Petit, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327866, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006223/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37187

Composer. Born 14 November 1943 in Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 14 November 1943, Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France
- **Also known as:** Santa Esmeralda
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Petit, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327866, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006223/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37187

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Cyrano de Bergerac*](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md) (88)

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## Biography

Jean-Claude Petit is a French composer, arranger and conductor. Born on 14 November 1943 in Vaires-sur-Marne, he studied harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris after accompanying jazz musicians in his youth.

He worked as an arranger for French pop and jazz recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including string arrangements for Mink DeVille, and served as a ghostwriter for film composer Michel Magne. Petit began receiving film credits in the 1980s. His scores include *Jean de Florette* (1986), *Manon of the Spring* (1986), *The Return of the Musketeers* (1989) and *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990). The latter earned him a César Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. He has also been credited as a member of the disco group Santa Esmeralda.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Fi1m 88, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)

## Complete filmography (50)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Through the Mill* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Dalida* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *First Growth* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Hôtel Normandy* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Visage* (2009), Music, Original Music Composer
- *Dance with Him* (2007), Music
- *One Summer* (2006), Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
- *Podium* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Simon le juste* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *A Loving Father* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Lumumba* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Les Misérables* (2000), series, Original Music Composer
- *Paddy* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Bitter Sugar* (1998), Music
- *Aristotle's Plot* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Beaumarchais the Scoundrel* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *The Horseman on the Roof* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Bravo la famille* (1994), series, Sound
- *Foreign Student* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Nobody's Children* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *The Castle of Olive Trees* (1993), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Dove's Lost Necklace* (1992), Music
- *The Playboys* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Guilty of Innocence* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *588 rue Paradis* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Mother* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Toujours seuls* (1991), as Pianist
- *Rue du Bac* (1991), Music
- *Uranus* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)
- *Headstrong* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Deux* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *The Return of the Musketeers* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Lotus Flower* (1988), as Torpierre
- *Vent de panique* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Tant qu'il y aura des femmes* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Manon of the Spring* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Jean de Florette* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Le Caviar rouge* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Billy Ze Kick* (1985), Music
- *Sadness and Beauty* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Slices of Life* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *L'Addition* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Vive la sociale !* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Tusk* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur* (1971), series, Sound
- *Crime Thief* (1969), Conductor
- *Testament of Orpheus* (1960), as 2e Homme-Chien (non crédité)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- Knight of the National Order of Merit 1996: Knight of the National Order of Merit (won)
- European Film Award for Best Composer 1990: European Film Award for Best Composer (nominated), for *Cyrano de Bergerac*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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