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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Michel_LegrandMichel Legrand - Wikipedia

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   Michel Jean Legrand (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ləɡʁɑ̃]; 24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs.

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3. fr.wikipedia.org › wiki › Michel_LegrandMichel Legrand — Wikipédia

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   Michel Legrand est un musicien, compositeur, pianiste de jazz, chanteur et arrangeur français naturalisé américain, né le 24 février 1932 à Paris 20e 1, 2 et mort le 26 janvier 2019 à Neuilly-sur-Seine 3. Sa carrière de compositeur pour le cinéma lui a valu de remporter trois Oscars .

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4. www.imdb.com › name › nm0006166Michel Legrand - IMDb

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   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.

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1
   • Birth Place: Paris, France

   • Death Date: January 1, 1
   • Death Place: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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6. www.bbc.co.uk › news › world-europe-47013214Windmills of Your Mind composer Michel Legrand dies aged 86 - BBC

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   Jan 26, 2019 · French Oscar-winning composer and jazz pianist Michel Legrand has died in Paris aged 86, his spokesman has said. During a career spanning more than 50 years, Legrand wrote over 200 film and TV...

7. www.nytimes.com › michel-legrand-deadMichel Legrand, Pianist and Film Composer, Dies at 86

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   Jan 26, 2019 · Michel Legrand, the invariably romantic pianist, arranger and composer of hundreds of film scores and songs that have became pop hits and love anthems, died on Saturday. He was 86. His...

8. www2.bfi.org.uk › news-opinion › sight-soundMichel Legrand obituary: an exceptional film composer with an ...

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   Feb 3, 2019 · Michel Legrand, who has died aged 86, composed over 250 scores for film and TV, involved himself in theatre, ballet, opera, numerous collaborations with artists from Maurice Chevalier to Bill Evans to Barbra Streisand to (most famously) the young Turks of the nouvelle vague, and yet eclipsed all of that with one unique and particular gift ...

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   Who was Michel Legrand?

   • French Oscar-winning composer and jazz pianist Michel Legrand has died in Paris aged 86, his spokesman has said. During a career spanning more than 50 years, Legrand wrote over 200 film and TV scores, as well as songs. In 1968, he won his first Oscar for the song The Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair film.

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   What did Michel Legrand do after he died?

   • By the time of his death Michel Legrand had racked up three Oscars, sold millions of hit records and worked with most of the great musicians of the 20th century. And he has left an enormous body of work that any composer, jazz, classical, film or ballad, would envy.

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   What was Legrand known for?

   • Legrand was a voracious consumer and producer of music, sitting at the centre of a cultural Venn diagram which included the worlds of jazz, avant-garde classical music, film music, cabaret and big band, with a broad knowledge of idiomatic French balladry and an innate ability to turn a tune into an earworm on first listen.

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   How many films did Legrand write?

   • Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 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.

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10. www.npr.org › 2019/01/26 › 689050826Michel Legrand, Oscar-Winning Composer Who Lived ... - NPR

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    Jan 26, 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...