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Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.
Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.
Interested in music from an early age, Calvi"s first composing work was for the French production The Patron in 1949. He is probably most famous for his work on three Asterix films: Asterix the Gaul, Asterix and Cleopatra and The Twelve Tasks of Asterix. He also composed the memorable Asterix theme for the first film, which was dispensed with by the time the music for The Twelve Tasks of Asterix was composed in 1976.
His most recent work was for the feature film The Crab Revolution in 2004.
He died in 2015, aged 92.