Background
Auric speedily made a reputation as a composer for films and came to be in great demand by English film studios.
For the concert hall, Auric wrote a fine Overture (1938), and a Piano Sonatina (1923) and Piano Sonata (1932). The texture of these two works is uncompromisingly slender for their material and reveals their stylistic periods as being not too wide apart.
Auric wrote criticism for the papers Marianne and Paris-Soir. In 1954 he became president of S.A.C.E.M. (the SociétéSociete des Auteurs, Compositeurs, et Editeurs de Musique). From 1962 to 1968 he was general administrator of the Paris OpéraOpera and the OpéraOpera Comique.