Jazz Standard – Autumn Leaves

$11.90–$16.90

Jazz Standard – Autumn Leaves Sheet Music for String Quartet is a popular song and jazz standard composed by Joseph Kosma with original lyrics by Jacques Prévert in French, and later by Johnny Mercer in English. An instrumental version by pianist Roger Williams was a #1 best-seller in the USA Billboard charts of 1955. Kosma was a native of Hungary who was introduced to Prévert in Paris. They collaborated on the song ''Les Feuilles mortes'' [fr] (“The Dead Leaves”) for the 1946 film Les Portes de la nuit (Gates of the Night) where it was sung by Irène Joachim. Kosma was influenced by a piece of ballet music, “Rendez-vous” written for Roland Petit, which was itself borrowed partially from “Poème d'octobre” by Jules Massenet. Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics and gave it the title “Autumn Leaves”.