Gérard Calvi

Born in 1922, Gerard Calvi completed his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris with a presitigous Prix de Rome in composition.
He also composed many symphonic pieces, other ones for solists, chamber music alongside musical scores for theater and cinema.
In 1967, he started producing soundtracks for "Astérix le gaulois", then "Asterix & Cléopatra" animation movies: they will remain mythic.

In these tunes, bantering instruments dialog in the most garrulous and burlesque way: saxophones gossip while trombones chuckle. Calvi could be seen in some ways as the french Spike Jones: there is a health that solace you, an irrepressible joy for life, also with a slight touch of gaité à la Offenbach.

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Un spectacle de Robert Dhéry (1974):



la ringarde - Roger Carel/Gérard Calvi/Françoise Dorin


biniou pop - Gérard Calvi

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Un film de Jean Herman (1972):



thème et générique - Gérard Calvi

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Un disque dur à trouver:



sur la plage - Gérard Calvi(196?)

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Un spectacle de Robert Dhéry(1962):



dans mes godasses - Louis de Funès/Robert Dhéry/André Maheux/Gérard Calvi

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Anda 1976 television report with two children asking questions to Mr. Calvi and Mr Uderzo (Asterix's dad):
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