Nova. In 1970, he took over the musical direction of the ORTF; from 1973 to 1978 he directed at the Paris Opera, and in 1988 and 1989 was Professor of Orchestration at the Paris Conservatory. Besides these appointments, he taught at Stanford University and in Hilversum. Later ballets include Septentrion (1975), Nana (1976) and L'ange bleu (1985). La tragédie de Carmen (1981), his adaptation of Bizet's opera for director Peter Brook, was an international success. Composed in 1981, 103 Regards dans l’eau is a violin concerto with 103 titled 'movements' in four main sections, inspired by “poetic celebrations of water” taken from a variety of literary and scientific sources. In 1983, he wrote a Symphonie based on Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande. In 1987, he arranged the orchestral music for the ballet Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, a pastiche by various French composers, for an ensemble of 15 instruments. In 1990, he also made an orchestral arrangement of the piano composition Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel. He returned to Debussy's Pelleas in 1992 when he abridged and arranged Debussy's score for two pianos in a Peter Brooks production entitled Impressions of Pelleas. He died in Paris in 2004, aged 79, and is buried at Ivry Cemetery, Ivry-sur-Seine. Selected filmography The Road to Damascus (1952) Koenigsmark (1953) References External links 1925 births 2004 deaths 20th-century French conductors (music) 20th-century French composers 20th-century French male musicians Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Conservatoire de Paris alumni French ballet composers French film score composers French male conductors (music) French music arrangers French people of Romanian descent French television composers French male film score composers Male television composers Musicians from Bucharest Pupils of Arthur Honegger Romanian composers Burials at Ivry Cemetery National University of Music Bucharest alumni