Georges Auric (French, 1899 - 1983) was a composer remembered for his ballet and film scores. He studied at the Montpellier Conservatory, then at the Paris Conservatoire, and soon joined five other composers (Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Louis Durey, and Germaine Tailleferre) to form the group known as Les Six, as a reaction against impressionistic French music propagated by Wagner and Debussy. During the 1920s, Auric wrote several scores for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, notably Les Matelots (1925), and was one of the pianists in the first performance of Stravinsky's Les Noces (1923). He also collaborated with Jean Cocteau, creating the score for his 1929 film Le Sang d'un poète and La Belle et la bête (1946). It is possible Man Ray met Auric in the 1920s and later photographed behind the scenes images for Le Sang d'un poète, which featured Man Ray’s lover Lee Miller, in her only on-screen appearance.