François Rauber was a French pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

, composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, arranger

Arrangement

The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...

 and conductor known for his works with chansonnier

Chansonnier

A chansonnier is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally "song-books," although some manuscripts are so called even though they preserve the text but not the music A chansonnier is a manuscript or...

 Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

. He served as the music director

Music director

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 for the 1975 film Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (film)

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Rauber was born in Neufchâteau, Vosges

Neufchâteau, Vosges

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 and studied music at the Nancy Conservatoire and the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris

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Rauber is also the composer of the Napoleonic March in the Colonel Chabert French movie by Yves Angelo

Yves Angelo

Yves Angelo is a French cinematographer and film director. Angelo has won the César Award for Best Cinematography three times: in 1990 for Nocturne indien, in 1992 for Tous les matins du monde, and in 1994 for Germinal....

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In 1979 Rauber was awarded the Grand Prize for Light Symphonic Music. During 1980s and early 1990s, he worked extensively with Portuguese

Portuguese people

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 Fernando Tordo

Fernando Tordo

Fernando Tordo, born March 29, 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal, is a singer and composer. In 1969, he made his singing debut on Portuguese television, while competing to represent his country in the Eurovision Song Contest . He would try again for the next 3 years until he finally won in 1973, with his...

 and served as arranger

Arranger

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 and conductor in some of his records. In 2003, he was awarded the Chanson Française Grand Prize.

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