Vladimir Cosma

Vladimir Cosma

  • Birthday: 1940-04-13
  • Place of birth: Bucharest, Romania
  • Also know as: Miroslav Cadim

Biography

Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist. He was born into a family of musicians. His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferruccio Busoni. After receiving first prizes for violin and composition at the Bucharest Conservatoire of Music, he arrived in Paris in 1963 and continued his studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, working with Nadia Boulanger. As well as for classical music, he discovered early on a passion for jazz, film music and all forms of popular music. From 1964 he made a number of international tours as a concert violinist and began to devote himself more and more to composing. He wrote various compositions including: Trois mouvements d'été for symphony orchestra, Oblique for violoncello and string orchestra, music for theatre and ballet (Volpone for the Comédie Française, the opera Fantômas...). In 1968, Yves Robert entrusted him with his first film music for Alexandre le Bienheureux. Vladimir Cosma has since composed more than three hundred scores for feature films and TV series. His numerous successes in the cinema have notably been in collaboration with Yves Robert, Gérard Oury, Francis Veber, Claude Pinoteau, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Claude Zidi, Ettore Scola, Pascal Thomas, Pierre Richard, Yves Boisset, André Cayatte, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Edouard Molinaro, Jean-Marie Poiré... and among which: Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, Diva, Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, La Boum, le Bal, l'As des As, la Chèvre, Les Fugitifs, Les Zozos, Pleure pas la bouche pleine, Dupont Lajoie, Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, La Dérobade, Le Père Noël est une ordure, L'Étudiante, La Gloire de mon père, Le Château de ma mère, Le dîner de cons ... Vladimir Cosma also featured in major French and American television productions: Michel Strogoff, Kidnapped, Mistral's Daughter, Châteauvallon, Les Mystères de Paris, Les Cœurs Brûlés... Film music allowed him to approach and develop many different musical styles: jazz (with music written for famous soloists such as Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Don Byas, Stéphane Grappelli, Jean-Luc Ponty, Philip Catherine, Tony Coe, Pepper Adams, la chanson (pour Nana Mouskouri, Marie Laforêt, Richard Sanderson, Diane Dufresne, Herbert Léonard, Mireille Mathieu, Nicole Croisille, Lara Fabian, Guy Marchand), original compositions inspired by folk-music (for Gheorghe Zamfir, Stanciu Simion Syrinx, pan-flute, Liam O'Flynn- pipes, Romane-guitar), as well as classical music (Berlin Concerto for violin and orchestra, Concerto for Euphonium and orchestra, Concerto Ibérique for trumpet and orchestra, Courts Métrages for brass quintet...). ... Source: Article "Vladimir Cosma" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

2017

As Compositeur de musiques (Intervenant)

The Neverending Party

2023

As Self - Composer

Louis de Funès, le rire éternel

2023

As Self - Composer

We Will All Meet in Paradise

1977

As Violinist at Mouchy's party (uncredited)

The Student

1988

As Self

The Party 2

1982

As Lui-même, au studio d'enregristrement pour Poupette

The Party

1980

As Lui-même, au studio d'enregristrement (non crédité)

Production

The Party 2

1982

As Original Music Composer

The Party

1980

As Original Music Composer

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

1973

As Original Music Composer

The Wing or the Thigh?

1976

As Original Music Composer

Bonsoir

1994

As Original Music Composer

The ComDads

1983

As Original Music Composer

Diva

1981

As Original Music Composer

The Closet

2001

As Original Music Composer

The Discord

1978

As Original Music Composer

Dracula and Son

1976

As Original Music Composer

Animal

1977

As Original Music Composer

Asterix vs. Caesar

1985

As Original Music Composer

A Business of Men

1981

As Original Music Composer

Asterix in Britain

1986

As Original Music Composer

The Dinner Game

1998

As Original Music Composer

My Mother's Castle

1990

As Original Music Composer

My Father's Glory

1990

As Original Music Composer

Kitchen with Apartment

1993

As Original Music Composer

Le Furet

2003

As Original Music Composer

Albert est méchant

2004

As Original Music Composer

I'm Losing My Temper

1974

As Original Music Composer

Ville à vendre

1992

As Original Music Composer

Grabuge!

2005

As Original Music Composer

13 French Street

2007

As Original Music Composer

Soleil

1997

As Original Music Composer

Banzaï

1983

As Original Music Composer

Ace of Aces

1982

As Original Music Composer

Dazzle

1995

As Original Music Composer

Inspector Blunder

1980

As Original Music Composer

The Common Man

1975

As Original Music Composer

The Death of Joe the Indian

1968

As Original Music Composer

Neither by Day Nor by Night

1972

As Original Music Composer

Courage fuyons

1979

As Original Music Composer

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1972

As Original Music Composer

Drôle de samedi

1985

As Music

State Reasons

1978

As Music

Le Loup blanc

1977

As Music

La Surprise du chef

1976

As Music

La Vouivre

1989

As Music

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac

1973

As Original Music Composer

Night of the Fox

1990

As Original Music Composer

Le Bal

1983

As Music

Les Insomniaques

2011

As Music

The Prize of Peril

1983

As Music

Crédit pour tous

2011

As Music

Les Jeunes Filles

1979

As Music

Climax

2009

As Music

Le Rustre et le Juge

2015

As Music

Agafia

2015

As Music

Memoirs of a French Whore

1979

As Original Music Composer

La poudre aux yeux

1985

As Sound

L'été 36

1986

As Music Director

The Supper

1992

As Original Music Composer

To Each His Hell

1977

As Original Music Composer

The Seventh Target

1984

As Original Music Composer

L'étincelle

1984

As Music

Heart to Heart

1979

As Music

Mr. Michel's Dog

1977

As Music

Il gèle en enfer

1990

As Original Music Composer

Promised... sworn!

1987

As Original Music Composer

La Chèvre

1981

As Original Music Composer

La Gueule de l’emploi

1974

As Original Music Composer

Les Ballets écarlates

2007

As Original Music Composer

Le Mentor

2013

As Original Music Composer

Vénéneuses

2017

As Original Music Composer

Touristes? Oh Yes!

2007

As Original Music Composer

La femme du boulanger

1999

As Original Music Composer

The News Puppets

1999

As Original Music Composer

Pierre and Marie

1997

As Original Music Composer

Cache Cash

1994

As Original Music Composer

La Femme abandonnée

1992

As Original Music Composer

Misdeal

1969

As Original Music Composer

Very Happy Alexander

1968

As Original Music Composer

Distracted

1970

As Original Music Composer

Chaleurs

1971

As Original Music Composer

Hail the Artist

1973

As Original Music Composer

The Crazy Capo Affair

1973

As Original Music Composer

The Madman

1973

As Original Music Composer

The Girl's Dead, Man

1974

As Original Music Composer

The Adulteress

1973

As Original Music Composer

The Wild Goose Chase

1975

As Original Music Composer

The Pink Telephone

1975

As Original Music Composer

Pardon Mon Affaire

1976

As Original Music Composer

The Defective Detective

1984

As Original Music Composer

Umbrella Coup

1980

As Original Music Composer

The Closet

2001

As Conductor

The Fugitives

1986

As Original Music Composer

The Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

1991

As Original Music Composer

Jaguar

1996

As Original Music Composer

The Toy

1976

As Original Music Composer

L'Affaire

1994

As Music

Life Lessons

2023

As Music

My Husband, His Mistress and I

1974

As Original Music Composer

The Felines

1972

As Music

Mr. Stein Goes Online

2017

As Original Music Composer

Rouges étaient les lilas

2016

As Original Music Composer

Le cabanon rose

2016

As Original Music Composer

Les Compagnons de la pomponnette

2015

As Original Music Composer

Calomnies

2014

As Original Music Composer

Sherlock Holmes: Le signe des quatre

1975

As Original Music Composer

Callaghan: un rendez-vous dans les ténèbres

1975

As Original Music Composer

Un risque à courir

2009

As Music

Tous flics !

2022

As Original Music Composer

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris

1973

As Original Music Composer

The Student

1988

As Original Music Composer

Snow and Fire

1991

As Original Music Composer

Too Shy to Try

1978

As Music

Catherine & Co.

1975

As Original Music Composer

Petit Con

1984

As Music

Colère

2010

As Original Music Composer

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

1979

As Original Music Composer

The Phoney

1975

As Original Music Composer

Le Bal des casse-pieds

1992

As Original Music Composer

The Twin

1984

As Original Music Composer

Death on a Rainy Sunday

1986

As Original Music Composer

Piano Cinéma

2022

As Original Music Composer

Le Chaud Lapin

1974

As Music

Les Zozos

1973

As Music

Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full

1973

As Original Music Composer

Nitwits

1987

As Music

Hitler in Hollywood

2011

As Original Music Composer

Le Gaffeur

1985

As Music

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

1982

As Original Music Composer

Levy & Goliath

1987

As Music

Just the Way You Are

1984

As Original Music Composer

Dossier Toroto

2011

As Musical

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