- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMaximilian Michael Andreas Jarczyk
- Michael Jary was born on September 24, 1906 in Laurahütte, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Siemianowice Slaskie, Slaskie, Poland]. He was a composer and producer, known for Inglourious Basterds (2009), The House of the Spirits (1993) and Enemy at the Gates (2001). He was married to Christiana Michaelis and Otti. He died on July 12, 1988 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
- SpousesChristiana Michaelis(January 26, 1962 - July 12, 1988) (his death)Otti (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- RelativesHerbert Jarczyk(Sibling)
- Brother of composer Herbert Jarczyk.
- In 1931 he received the award of the Beethoven Prize from the city of Berlin, which was a great honour for the young man.
- Michael Jary refused to write titles that had to fit in with the playing times of the jukeboxes.
- In 1948 he set up his own publishing company, Michael Jary Productions, which in the fifties even had an office in New York.
- The possibilities of multiple track recording caught his interest. Swing-arrangements and Jazz were part of his repertoire in spite of governmental diktats. Among other projects he composed a cyclus of musical zodiac interpretations. He became an expert in jazz and swing during the thirties.
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