The French composer’s most famous work was the music for the umbrellas of Cherbourg -movie.Michel Legrand had planned to give a concert he was still in the spring. AOP
the Oscar-winning French composer Michel Legrand is dead early on Saturday in Paris. Legrand had died, 86-year-old.
the Composer had time to do more than 50 years of career. He wrote the music for over 200 films and tv series.
the first Oscar-a prize he won in 1968 The Windmills of Your Mind -song, which kuultiiin Thomas Crown affair movie. The song has made the Finnish language, Juha Persecution lyrics by version name Similar to happiness. It is recorded, inter alia, aretha in 1970.
He also received two best original musical composition Oscar, 1971 Summer of ’42 -the movie and the 1983 Yentl-the movie.
in the 1960s, Legrand collaborated with French new wave director J acquest Demyn with the umbrellas of Cherbourg movie. That success opened the Legrand door to Hollywood. The composer worked with such legends as Franks Sinatra and Barbra Streisendin .
Legrand film music was often echoes jazz.
Legrand had performed to in April in Paris. He left behind four children.
Sources: BBC, Sputnik News.