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Michel Legrand

real name Michel-Jean Legrand

France · 1932-02-24 – 2019-01-26

Michel Legrand is credited on 12,121 releases across 2,910 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1953–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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12,121

Credits

2,910

Albums

8

Decades active

528

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Biography

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French composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist.
Born 24 February 1932 in Paris - died 26 January 2019 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
He was a prolific film and television scores composer and wrote many memorable songs. His scores for the films of Jacques Demy, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - 1964) and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort - 1967) earned him Academy Award nominations and he won his first of three Oscars for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
He was the son of Raymond Legrand, brother of Christiane Legrand and uncle of Victoria Legrand.

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Credited work

12,121 releases · 2,910 albums · active 1953–2026

  • Performance · 15,594
  • Other credits · 2,224
  • Production · 339
  • Engineering · 3

Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Studio Davout · A&R Studios · The Burbank Studios

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