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14 April 2026 Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt (France)
Nosferatu by Jean-François Zygel
Jean-François Zygel, piano - La Seine Musicale
Program Info: Jean-François Zygel composition, piano, Fender Rhodes and celesta
It is sometimes claimed that good film music shouldn't stand out. The composers honoured at the Greatest Film Music concerts didn't follow this advice, and that's a good thing! On the program: a series of concerts dedicated to cult music from masterpieces of the 7th art at the Auditorium of La Seine Musicale. While certainly composed for the screen, soundtracks are scores in their own right that can very well do without images; they give us the pleasure of remembering the images they accompanied, and even of guessing what they were.
Presentation Immerse yourself in the mysterious and fascinating world of Nosferatu , a loose adaptation of legendary novel Dracula 's Bram Stoker , sublimated into a masterpiece of expressionist cinema: the film by FW Murnau , made in 1921. This emblematic film of German expressionism and fantasy cinema marked the history of cinema with its unprecedented vision of the vampire myth, both terrifying and seductive, and remains an inexhaustible source of inspiration more than a century after its release . Through an innovative range of cinematographic techniques (special effects, tinting of night scenes, acceleration of certain movements, negative images, etc.), Murnau reinvents the image of the vampire, creating an ambiguous creature, a nocturnal and elusive being, both real and imaginary, weak and powerful, masculine and feminine.
A specialist in accompaniment to silent films in concert, the renowned pianist and composer Jean-François Zygel magnifies this legendary work by creating a captivating sound atmosphere in the Auditorium of La Seine Musicale . His music, woven from fragments of chorales, enigmatic nursery rhymes and menacing drones, is tinged with a delicate sound poetry, carried by an ensemble of three complementary keyboards. A musical universe as mysterious as the image that unfolds on the screen, where each note dialogues with the shadows of the film. A rare encounter, where the magic of silent cinema meets the power of music, for an unforgettable experience!
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