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Full Name: Michel Jean Legrand
Description: Pianist, Composer, Conductor, Arranger, (French)
Known For: The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) Film score
Instruments: Pianist
Music Styles: Classical, Easy listening
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 24th February 1932
Location Born: Paris, France
Died 26 January 2019 (aged 86)
Paris, France
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Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand (born 24 February 1932) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. Legrand is a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores in addition to many memorable songs. He is best known for his often haunting film music and scores, such as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) featuring the song “The Windmills of Your Mind” for which he won his first Academy Award.
He has won three Oscars out of 13 nominations, five Grammys, and has been nominated for an Emmy.
He was twenty-two when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released.
In the early 1950s, Legrand was one of the first Europeans to work with jazz innovators such as Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz.
While on a visit to the U.S. in 1958, Legrand collaborated with such musicians as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Phil Woods, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, and Art Farmer in an album of inventive orchestrations of jazz standards titled Legrand Jazz.
Writer of over forty film scores including ’Roman Holiday’ in the fifties.
A number of his songs have become jazz standards, covered frequently by other artists, including “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?,” “Watch What Happens,” “The Summer Knows,” and “You Must Believe in Spring.”
He recorded more than one hundred albums with international musical stars (spanning the genres of jazz, variety, and classical) and worked with such diverse musicians as Phil Woods, Ray Charles, Perry Como, Neil Diamond, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, James Ingram, Jack Jones, Kiri te Kanawa, Frankie Laine, Tereza Kesovija, Johnny Mathis, Jessye Norman, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, and Shirley Bassey.
He lived his time between America and France.
Legrand died in Paris on 26 January 2019 at the age of 86, a month shy before his 87th birthday.[9] He remained active until his death and had concerts scheduled to take place in the spring.
Film scores include.
Beau fixe (1953)
Lovers Net (1954)
Charmants garçons (1958)
Le Triporteur (1958)
L’Amérique insolite (1958)
Lola (1960)
Terrain vague (co-composer) (1960)
A Woman Is a Woman (1960)
The French Game ) (1960)
Les Portes claquent (1960)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1961)
The 7 Capital Sins (co-composer) (1961)
The Winner (1961)
Retour a New York (1962)
Comme un poisson dans l’eau (1962)
Eva (1962)
Une grosse tete (1962)
My Life to Live (1962)
Bay of Angels (1962)
L’Amerique lunaire (1962)
Histoire d’un petit garcon devenu grand (1962)
Le joli mai (1962)
Illuminations (1963)
Le grand escroc (1963)
L’Empire de la nuit (1963)
Love Is A Ball (1963)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
A Ravishing Idiot (1964)
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Fascinante amazonie (1964)
Les amoureux du France (1964)
La Douceur du village (1964)
A Matter of Resistance (1965)
Quand passent les faisans (1965)
Tender Scoundrel (1965)
Monnaie de singe (1965)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1966)
Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (1966)
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean (1966)
L’an 2000 (1966)
Gold and Lead (1966)
A Matter of Innocence (1967)
L’homme a la Buick (1967)
How to Save a Marriage (1967)
Sweet November (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Swimming Pool (1968)
Play Dirty (1968)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Castle Keep (1969)
The Happy Ending (1969)
Picasso Summer (1969)
Pieces of Dreams (1969)
The Go-Between (1970)
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
Wuthering Heights (1970)
The Swashbuckler (1970)
Donkey Skin (1970)
The Lady in the Car With Glasses And a Gun (1970)
Un peu de soleil dans l’eau froide (1970)
Le Mans (1970)
Summer of ’42 (1971)
La vieille Fille (1971)
A Time for Loving (1971)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Portnoy’s Complaint (1972)
Les feux de la Chandeleur (1972)
The Impossible Object (1972)
One Is a Lonely Number (1972)
A Doll’s House (1973)
The Nelson Affair (1973)
The Outside Man (1973)
The Hostages (1973)
Forty Carats (1973)
Cops and Robbers (1973)
Breezy (1973)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Our Time (1974)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
The Most Important Event Since Man Walked on the Moon (1974)
F for Fake (1974)
The Savage (Le sauvage) (1975)
Gulliver’s Travels (1975)
Sheila Levine is Dead (1975)
Gable and Lombard (1976)
Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
Le voyage de noces (1976)
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976)
The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
Routes to the South (1978)
Mon premier amour (1978)
Lady Oscar (1978)
The Phoenix (1978)
The Fabulous Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (1979)
Atlantic City (1980)
The Hunter (1980)
The Mountain Men (1980)
Les Uns et les Autres (1980)
Hinotori (co-composer) (1980)
Falling in Love Again (1981)
What Makes David Run? (1981)
La cadeau (1981)
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1982)
Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) (1982 cut)
La revanche des humanoides (1982)
Best Friends (1982)
The Gift (1982)
Yentl (1983)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
A Love in Germany (1983)
Secret Places (1984)
Micki and Maude (1984)
Love Songs (1984)
Palace (1985)
Partir revenir (1985)
Train to Hell (1985)
Parking (1985)
Crossings (1986)
Sins (1986)
Casanova (1987)
Social Club (1987)
Spirale (1987)
Switching Channels (1988)
Three Seats For the 26th (1988)
Five Days in June (1989)
Escape from Paradise (1990)
Predator 2 (1990)
Dingo (1991)
Gaspard et Robinson (1991)
Pure Luck (1991)
The Burning Shore (1991)
The Pickle (1993)
Ready to Wear (1994)
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
Les enfants de lumiere (1995)
L’Americain se détend (1958)
Michel’s Mixed Up Musical Bird (1968)
Gone Fishin’ (1997)
Aaron’s Magic Village (1997)
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