Michel Legrand

About

Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. 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 (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), 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 (1968), and additional Oscars for Summer of ’42 (1971) and Barbra Streisand’s Yentl (1983).

Albums/Songs:

• April in Paris
• Rock and Roll
• Piano Works
• Disco Magic Concorde
• Legrand Piano
• Brian’s Song
• Sérénades du XXe siècle
• The Warm Shade of Memory
• Fauré: Requiem, op. 48 / Duruflé: Requiem, op. 9
• Archi-Cordes
• Lena & Michel
• Le Jazz Grand
• Michel Legrand chante Les Moulins de mon cœur
• Performs His Symphonic Suite From “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” Theme and Variations for Two Pianos and Orchestra From “The Go-Between”
• Michel Legrand & Stephane Grappelli
• Legrand “Live” Jazz
• Four Piano Blues
• Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand
• Broadway Is My Beat
• Legrand Jazz
• Rhapsody in Blue / Un américain à Paris
• The Windmills of Your Mind
• Michel Legrand chante et s’accompagne
• Douce France
• I Love Paris

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