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Michel Legrand
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 Awa…
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entertainment · French film score composer (1932–2019) · conductor · composer · actor · singer · pianist · music arranger · jazz musician · screenwriter · film score composer · film director · also Michel Legrand, Mig Bike, Michel Jean Legrand, Legrand
Born 24 February 1932 · Died 26 January 2019 · Q313281
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 2 entries
Released album “Il était une fois Michel Legrand”.
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Deadline.com: ‘Once Upon A Time Michel Legrand’, Feature Doc About Famed Musician And Composer, Leads Mediawan Rights’ Cannes Slate — Watch The Trailer
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Hier & demain”.
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Le Monde instrumental Michel Legrand : Jazz et musiques de film 1953–1962”.
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2019· 13 entries
The Guardian: Amour review – Michel Legrand's daft musical about Montmartre's Robin Hood
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Released album “Best of”.
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philstar.com: Memories of Michel Legrand
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NPR: French Pianist And Composer Michel Legrand Dies At 86
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The Guardian: Michel Legrand obituary
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The Guardian: Michel Legrand, Oscar-winning composer, dies aged 86
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Rolling Stone: Michel Legrand, Oscar-Winning Film Composer, Dead at 86
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The Washington Post: Michel Legrand, Oscar-winning composer of ‘Windmills of Your Mind,’ dies at 86
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Variety: Tributes to Oscar-Winning Composer Michel Legrand Pour In
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Yahoo: Michel Legrand, Oscar-Winning Composer, Dies at 86
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The Mirror: Michel Legrand dead at 86 - Oscar-winning composer dies after 50-year career in music
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Died 2019-01-26.
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Deadline.com: Michel Legrand Dies: Oscar-Winning Composer Was 86
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2018· 4 entries
The Guardian: Soundtrack legend Michel Legrand: 'I've been an adventurer!'
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Jazz: Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz
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"Once upon a time Michel Legrand", directed by David Hertzog Dessites in 2024
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Asteroid 31201 Michellegrand was named in his honour
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2017· 3 entries
Released album “Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Woman)”.
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Released album “Concerto pour piano / Concerto pour violoncelle”.
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Released album “Ode To Billy Joe”.
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2016· 2 entries
Released album “Legrand Jazz + Legrand Piano”.
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Released album “Legrand Jazz”.
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “Michel Legrand & ses amis”.
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Jazzic in Classic”.
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “Anthology”.
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Released album “Entre elle et lui”.
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Released album “L’Intégrale / The Complete Edition”.
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2012· 3 entries
The Guardian: Michel Legrand – review
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Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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Released album “La Musique au pluriel / Music in the Plural”.
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2011· 5 entries
The Guardian: Michel Legrand: Noël! Noël!! Noël!!! – review
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Released album “Noël ! Noël !! Noël !!!”.
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Released album “Suites cinématographiques”.
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The Guardian: Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors
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Released album “The Music of Michel Legrand”.
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “Le Cinéma en chanté”.
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The Guardian: Theatre review: Michel Legrand and Alison Moyet, Shaw Theatre, London
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Released album “1957–58 – Legrand Jazz & Ascenseur pour l’echafaud (with Michel Legrand)”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Michel Legrand by Michel Legrand”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Le Cinéma de Michel Legrand : Nouvelle Vague”.
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Released album “European Holiday: Paris, Rome & Vienna”.
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2005· 4 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2005).
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Released album “Le Cinéma de Michel Legrand”.
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Released album “The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection”.
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Released album “Legrand Nougaro”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Jazz in Paris: Paris Jazz Piano”.
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2002· 1 entry
As Amour and was translated into English by Jeremy Sams and was directed by James Lapine
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Anthologie”.
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Released album “I Was Born in Love With You: Jessye Norman Sings Michel Legrand”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Big Band”.
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Released album “Le Meilleur de Michel Legrand”.
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Released album “Michel Legrand - The Very Best Of Windmills of Your Mind”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Les Moulins de mon cœur (The Windmills of your Mind)”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Les Moulins de mon cœur”.
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Legrand composed the score for the musical Le Passe-muraille, with a book by Didier Van Cauwelaert
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “The Warm Shade of Memory”.
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Released album “Douce France”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Présence”.
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “I Love Paris”.
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Released album “Four Piano Blues”.
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Released album “Michel Plays Legrand”.
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Released album “Fauré: Requiem, op. 48 / Duruflé: Requiem, op. 9”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “Piano Works”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Michel Legrand & Stephane Grappelli”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Legrand "Live" Jazz”.
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “Legrand Piano”.
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Released album “Le Jazz Grand”.
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Released album “Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand”.
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Released album “Where Love Begins”.
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for Yentl (1984).
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Released album “Parking”.
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1983· 4 entries
Released album “Yentl”.
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Released album “Slapstick”.
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Released album “Never Say Never Again”.
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Released album “Un amour en allemagne = ein Liebe in Deutschland”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Bolero”.
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Released album “Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Atlantic City”.
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Released album “Les Uns et les Autres”.
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “ベルサイユのばら = Lady Oscar”.
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Released album “Performs His Symphonic Suite From "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" Theme and Variations for Two Pianos and Orchestra From "The Go-Between"”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Disco Magic Concorde”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Michel Legrand”.
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “Michel Legrand and Friends”.
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Released album “Gable and Lombard”.
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1975· 3 entries
Released album “Lena & Michel”.
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Released album “Le sauvage”.
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Released album “Michel Legrand chante”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Michel Legrand Meets Miles Davis”.
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1973· 3 entries
Released album “Breezy”.
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Released album “Les Trois Mousquetaires”.
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Released album “L'évenement le plus important depuis que l'Homme a marche sur la Lune”.
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1972· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score for Summer of '42 (1972).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Original Music for Summer of '42 (1972).
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Released album “Legrand écran”.
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Released album “Time for Loving”.
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1971· 4 entries
Released album “Le Mans”.
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Released album “Les mariés de l'an deux”.
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“Theme from Summer of '42 (The Summer Knows)”
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Released album “Summer of '42 / The Picasso Summer”.
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1970· 3 entries
Released album “Brian's Song”.
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Released album “La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil (Bande originale du film)”.
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Released album “Peau d'âne”.
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1969· 7 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for The Windmills of Your Mind (1969).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for The Windmills of Your Mind (1969).
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Released album “Michel Legrand chante Les Moulins de mon cœur”.
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Released album “The Windmills of Your Mind”.
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Released album “La piscine”.
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Released album “The Happy Ending”.
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For the song "The Windmills of Your Mind", followed with the Academy Award for his music for Summer of ’42 in 1972 and for Yentl in 1984
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1968· 2 entries
Released album “Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967 original film cast)”.
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Released album “The Thomas Crown Affair”.
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1964· 5 entries
Released album “Michel Legrand chante et s'accompagne”.
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Released album “Les Amoureux du France”.
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Released album “Archi-Cordes”.
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Released album “Sérénades du XXe siècle”.
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Released album “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg”.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Love Is a Ball”.
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1962· 2 entries
Released album “Rhapsody in Blue / Un américain à Paris”.
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Released album “Broadway Is My Beat”.
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “Reunion In Rhythm”.
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1956· 2 entries
Released album “Rock and Roll”.
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Released album “April in Paris”.
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1949· 1 entry
Studied at Conservatoire de Paris (1942–1949).
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-02-24.
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