Michel Legrand (1932 - 2019) was a French composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz
pianist. Legrand 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).
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