Michel MAGNE

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Composer, Singer & Musician

FrenchBorn Michel MAGNE

French film and experimental music composer

Born on March 20, 1930 in Lisieux , France

Died on December 19, 1964 in Cergy , France

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Michel Magne (20 March 1930 in Lisieux, Calvados, France – 19 December 1984 in Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise) was a French film and experimental music composer.

...   Michel Magne (20 March 1930 in Lisieux, Calvados, France – 19 December 1984 in Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise) was a French film and experimental music composer.


Early life
He was the fifth child in a family of eight. As young as age five, he was intrigued by his parents' piano. The Lisieux cathedral's organist taught him to play keyboards, and soon he played the harmonium during Sunday services. At age nine he found his parents' Wagner discs, and thereafter would often quote Wagner in his works.He then studied music at the French: Caen Conservatory, in Caen, France. By age 16 he had written an oratorio and a piano concerto. In 1946, he left Caen to attend the Paris Conservatory, where he had lessons by Simone Plé-Caussade and Olivier Messiaen.


Achievements, career, recording studio
He was nominated in 1962 for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for adapting the Jackie Gleason score to film Gigot. He also scored Barbarella and a series of OSS 117 films.
In 1962, he released the studio album Tropical Fantasy.
Magne wrote some songs with lyrics by Françoise Sagan for Juliette Gréco and provided orchestral accompaniment.
In 1962, he purchased the Château d'Hérouville, near Pontoise, and converted it into a residential recording studio in 1969, known as Studio d'enregistrement Michel Magne, which through the 1970s was used by a series of artists such as Elton John (at his Honky Château), Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, and the Bee Gees among many others.In the 1970s, Jean-Claude Petit scored Magne's films, without due credit.


Personal life and death
In 1972, he married Marie-Claude, née Calvet, having met her in 1970, near Hérouville while she was hitch-hiking as a schoolgirl. The couple moved to the south of France in 1974.Magne committed suicide in 1984, in a hotel room.


Film scores
1955
Le Pain vivant
1960
Détournement de mineures
Les Sérum de bonté (TV series)
Les Filles sèment le vent
1961
Les Livreurs
Les Laches vivent d'espoir
Rodophe Bresdin
1962
Gigot (arranged and conducted only)
Le Diable et les Dix Commandements
Le Repos du guerrier
Les filles de La Rochelle
Konga Yo
Un singe en hiver
Les Bricoleurs
Le Gorille a mordu l'archevêque
1963
Les Tontons flingueurs
Germinal
Les Grands Chemins
Symphonie pour un massacre
Les Femmes d'abord
Le Vice et la vertu
Des frissons partout
Méfiez-vous, mesdames
OSS 117 se déchaîne
Tante Aurore viendra ce soir
Mélodie en sous-sol
1964
Angélique, Marquise des Anges
Les Barbouzes
Fantômas
La Ronde
Cyrano et d'Artagnan
La chasse à l'homme
Le Monocle rit jaune
Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117
Le Gentleman de Cocody
Les Gros bras
1965
Fantômas se déchaîne
Les Bons Vivants
Coplan FX 18 casse tout
Mission spéciale à Caracas
Par un beau matin d'été
Furia à Bahia pour OSS 117
A Woman in White
Marvelous Angelique
La Bonne Occase
Compartiment tueurs
1966
Atout cœur à Tokyo pour OSS 117
To Skin a Spy
Brigade antigangs
Angelique and the King
Galia
Estouffade à la Caraïbe
1967
Untamable Angelique
Johnny Banco
À cœur joie
Un homme de trop
Fantômas contre Scotland Yard
Batouk
1968
The Sergeant
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Le Bâtard (musical direction)
Barbarella (musical direction)
Angelique and the Sultan
Catherine, il suffit d'un amour
Fleur d'oseille
1969
Les Étrangers
1970
Cold Sweat
Cran d'arrêt
1972
Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil
1973
Le Complot
Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme... de Roger Vadim (orchestration)
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
1974
Les Chinois à Paris
1976
Néa
1978
Viol
1982
Les Misérables
T'es folle ou quoi?
1983
S.A.S. à San Salvador
Surprise Party
L'indic
1984
Réveillon chez Bob
Emmanuelle 4


References


External links
[French] Michel Magne, un destin foudroyé, Daniel Bastié, Ed. Grand Angle, 2014
Michel Magne, Space Age Pop
[1], Magne biography in English
Michel Magne at IMDb



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