Michel Legrand  

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Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenian descent.

Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums. 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. He is a virtuoso jazz and classical pianist and an accomplished arranger and conductor who performs with orchestras all over the world. He studied music at the Paris Conservatoire from 1943-50 (ages 11-20), working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger, the teacher also of many other composers, including Aaron Copland and Philip Glass. Legrand graduated with top honors as both a composer and a pianist.

Filmography

• Beau fixe (short) (1953)
• Lovers Net (Les amants du Tage) (1954)
• Charmants garçons (1958)
• Le Triporteur (1958)
• L'Amérique insolite (1958)
• Lola (1960)
• Terrain vague (co-composer) (1960)
• A Woman Is a Woman (Une femme est une femme) (1960)
• The French Game (Le cœur battant) (1960)
• Les Portes claquent (1960)
• Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) (1961)
• The 7 Capital Sins (Les Sept péchés capitaux) (co-composer) (1961)
• The Winner (Un cœur gros comme ça) (1961)
• Retour a New York (1962)
• Comme un poisson dans l'eau (1962)
• Eva (1962)
• Une grosse tete (1962)
• My Life to Live (Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux) (1962)
• Bay of Angels (La baie des anges) (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 (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) (1964)
• A Ravishing Idiot (Une ravissante idiote) (1964)
• Band of Outsiders (Bande à part) (1964)
• Fascinante amazonie (1964)
• Les amoureux du France (1964)
• La Douceur du village (1964)
• A Matter of Resistance (La vie de château) (1965)
• Quand passent les faisans (1965)
• Tender Scoundrel (Tendre voyou) (1965)
• Monnaie de singe (1965)
• The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1966)
• Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?) (1966)
• The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean (1966)
• L'an 2000 (1966)
• Gold and Lead (L'or et le plomb) (1966)
• A Matter of Innocence (also known as Pretty Polly) (1967)
• L'homme a la Buick (1967)
• How to Save a Marriage — And Ruin Your Life (1967)
• Sweet November (1968)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
• The Swimming Pool (La piscine) (1968)
• Play Dirty (1968)
• The Appointment (rejected) (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 (Les mariés de l'an II) (1970)
• Donkey Skin (Peau d'Âne) (1970)
• The Lady in the Car With Glasses And a Gun (La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil) (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 (Also: Paris Was Made For Lovers) (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 (Also: A Bequest to the Nation) (1973)
• The Outside Man (Un homme est mort) (1973)
• The Hostages (Le gang des otages) (1973)
• Forty Carats (1973)
• Cops and Robbers (1973)
• Breezy (1973)
• The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (rejected) (1973)
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• Our Time (1974)
• The Four Musketeers (1974)
• The Most Important Event Since Man Walked on the Moon (L'Evenement le plus important depuis que l'homme marche sur la lune) (1974)
• F for Fake (1974)
• The Savage (Le sauvage) (1975)
• Gulliver's Travels (1975)
• Sheila Levine is Dead — and Living in New York (1975)
• Gable and Lombard (1976)
• Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
• Le voyage de noces (1976)
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (La flute a six schtroumpfs) (1976)
• The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
• Routes to the South (Les routes du sud) (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 (also known as Bolero) (1980)
• Hinotori (co-composer) (1980)
• Falling in Love Again (1981)
• What Makes David Run? (Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?) (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 (Un amour en Allemagne) (1983)
• Secret Places (1984)
• Micki and Maude (1984)
• Love Songs (Paroles et musique) (1984)
• Palace (1985)
• Partir revenir (1985)
• Train to Hell (Train d'enfer) (1985)
• Parking (1985)
• Crossings (1986)
• Sins (1986)
• Casanova (1987)
• Social Club (Club de recontres) (1987)
• Spirale (1987)
• Switching Channels (1988)
• Three Seats For the 26th (Trois places pour le 26) (1988)
• Five Days in June (Cinq jours en juin) (1989)
• Escape from Paradise (Fuga dal Paradiso) (1990)
• Predator 2 (1990)
• Dingo with Miles Davis (1991)
• Gaspard et Robinson (1991)
• Pure Luck (1991)
• The Burning Shore (1991)
• The Pickle (1993)
• Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter) (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)