Michel Legrand
Born: 24th February 1932, Menilmontant, Paris, France
Died: 26th February 2019, Neuilly sur Seine, France
Nationality: French
Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written more than 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), and additional Oscars for Summer of '42 (1971) and Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983).
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Michel Legrand (1932-2019)
26th Jan 2019
The French composer and jazz pianist, whose film scores included Yentl, The Thomas Crown Affair and Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, has died aged 86.
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- A rose in the snow (2)
- Afterthoughts (2)
- Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (3)
- Blue, green, grey and gone (2)
- Brian's Song (1)
- Celui-là (3)
- Chanson de Delphine (from the movie Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (2)
- Chanson de Maxence (3)
- Comme elle est longue à mourir ma jeunesse (2)
- Dans ses yeux (2)
- Dis-moi (3)
- His eyes, her eyes (3)
- How do you keep the music playing? (4)
- I was born in love with you (3)
- Je vivrai sans toi (4)
- La valse des lilas (3)
- Le Cinéma (3)
- Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (4)
- Les enfants qui pleurent (2)
- Les moulins de mon coeur (6)
- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (13)
- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg: I will wait for you (10)
- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg: Watch what happens (3)
- Magic (2)
- Once Upon A Summertime (3)
- One day (2)
- Papa can you hear me? (from Yentl) (9)
- Sans Toi (2)
- Summer me, Winter me (2)
- Summer of 42 (13)
- The Moon and I (2)
- The Summer Knows (13)
- The Way He Makes Me Feel (2)
- The Windmills of your Mind (24)
- The World of Legrand (1)
- Une femme est une femme (1)
- What are you doing the rest of your life? (13)
- Where Is It Written (4)
- Wuthering Heights (1)
- You must believe in Spring (6)
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