Oscar winner Michel Legrand is dead

is The French composer who has written the music for “Yentl” or “the Thomas Crown is not to catch”, has died at the age of 86 in Paris.

The French composer and triple Oscar winner Michel Legrand is dead. According to the news Agency AFP and other French media, citing his press Secretary reported, died of his film music famous Legrand in the night on Saturday at the age of 86 in Paris.

Legrand was born in 1932 as the son of an orchestral conductor in Paris, and later studied at the Conservatoire with Nadia Boulanger. Shortly thereafter, he arranged a string album for Dizzy Gillespie. Among his best known Works is the music to “The umbrellas of Cherbourg” (1964) with the young Catherine Deneuve. The Musical Film was awarded the Palme d’or at the Festival in Cannes and five Oscar-nominated.

For the movie-Song “The Windmills of Your Mind” from “the Thomas Crown is not believe” (1968) with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and the soundtrack to “summer of ’42” (1971) and “Yentl” (1984) with Barbra Streisand, the Frenchman received an Oscar nomination. His passion for Jazz led him about with Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Edith Piaf. In the classical field he has worked with the American Opera singer Jessye Norman.