Michel Legrand

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Michel Legrand

Communications

#710

World Rank

#1134

Historical Rank

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Why Is Michel Legrand Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 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 and The Young Girls of Rochefort , earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair , and additional Oscars for Summer of '42 and Barbra Streisand's Yentl .

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