Marius Constant
Marius Constant (1925-2004) was a French composer and conductor born in Bucharest. He settled in Paris in 1946, studied with Olivier Messiaen, Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger, and joined Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrète group. He is known for his ballets, for founding Ensemble Ars Nova in 1963 and for the music used in the opening titles of The Twilight Zone. Constant wrote ballet scores mostly for Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart, among them Cyrano de Bergerac (1959), Éloge de la folie (1966) and Paradis perdu (1967).


