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- After finishing conservatory, he traveled with Maurice Chevalier as an accompanist musical director. Later, he began composing and turned to film scores in the mid-1950's.
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He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris from age 11, working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger [10] and graduated with top honors as both a composer and a pianist. [8] He burst upon the international music scene at 22 when his album I Love Paris (album) became a surprise hit.
Mar 18, 2019 · Michel Legrand was born in a Paris suburb into a family of working musicians. Raymond Legrand, his father, was a conductor and composer. Michel was a prodigy, entering the Paris Conservatoire at 11 and studying with such luminaries as the legendary teacher of composers, Nadia Boulanger. The Conservatoire was a revelation for him.
Legrand composed all the music. The film was written and directed by the late Jacques Demy and first released in 1964. It made a star of the young actress, Catherine Deneuve.
Michel Legrand, native and resident of Paris, was one of the most successful foreign-born composers ever to grace the American best-seller lists. From his very first success in the United States with the memorable album I Love Paris in 1954, his productivity continued unabated throughout his life.
Jan 28, 2019 · Three-time Oscar-winning composer, songwriter and pianist Michel Legrand died Saturday at his home in France. He was 86. The conservatory-trained musician worked across genres but was best known as a prolific composer of film scores, including The Windmills of Your Mind and I Will Wait For You.
Michel Legrand is a three-time Academy Award-winning French composer, conductor and pianist who composed over 200 film and television scores as well as recorded over a hundred albums of jazz, popular and classical music. He was born on February 24, 1932, in Becon-les-Bruyeres, in the Paris suburbs, France.
May 17–30, 2004. Beautiful Music. Michel Legrand on Film. Share. A virtuoso jazz and classical pianist, an accomplished conductor, and a multiple Oscar-winning composer with more than two hundred film and television scores to his credit, Michel Legrand has left an indelible mark on the cinema.
