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- Birth nameMichael 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 Enemy at the Gates (2001), Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Downfall (2004). He died on July 12, 1988 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
- 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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