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Michel Legrand
February 24, 1932 -
Nationality: French
Category: Composer
Subcategory: French Composer

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

   

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

   

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

   

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

   

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

   

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