Oscar-winning score composer Jarre dies, aged 84

OSCAR-WINNING composer Maurice Jarre, who captured the majesty of the desert in his music for Lawrence of Arabia and wrote the haunting Lara’s Theme in his score for Doctor Zhivago, has died.

He was 84.

Jarre died in his villa in California, where he had lived for decades, Bernard Miyet, a friend of the composer and leader of the French musicians’ guild SACEM, said. No cause of death was given.