Michel Magne
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- March 20, 1930
- Died
- December 19, 1984 (aged 54)
- Birthplace
- Lisieux, Calvados, France
Biography
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. 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. 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 1970's, Jean-Claude Petit scored Magne's films, without due credit. 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. Source: Article "Michel Magne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Fantomas Demasque
Movie · Original Music Composer
Emmanuelle 4
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Informer
Movie · Original Music Composer
S.A.S. San Salvador
Movie · Original Music Composer
Les Misérables
Movie · Original Music Composer
Le transfuge
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rape
Movie · Original Music Composer
Nea
Movie · Original Music Composer
Chinese In Paris
Movie · Original Music Composer
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Movie · Original Music Composer
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Movie · Original Music Composer
Un ange au paradis
Movie · Original Music Composer
Four Nights of a Dreamer
Movie · Original Music Composer
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Movie · Original Music Composer
Safety Catch
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cold Sweat
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Strangers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Angelique and the Sultan
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Sergeant
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Bastard
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sorrel Flower
Movie · Original Music Composer
Untamable Angelique
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Looters
Movie · Original Music Composer
Shock Troops
Movie · Original Music Composer
Johnny Banco
Movie · Original Music Composer
Two Weeks in September
Movie · Original Music Composer
Angelique and the King
Movie · Original Music Composer
Brigade Anti Gangs
Movie · Original Music Composer
Galia
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fantomas Unleashed
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Sleeping Car Murders
Movie · Original Music Composer
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mission to Caracas
Movie · Original Music Composer
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
Movie · Original Music Composer
Crime on a Summer Morning
Movie · Original Music Composer
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ivory Coast Adventure
Movie · Original Music Composer
Husband for Sale
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fantomas
Movie · Original Music Composer
Male Hunt
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
Movie · Original Music Composer
Angelique
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Great Spy Chase
Movie · Original Music Composer
Circle of Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Movie · Original Music Composer
Shadow of Evil
Movie · Original Music Composer
Crooks in Clover
Movie · Original Music Composer
OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Movie · Original Music Composer
Germinal
Movie · Original Music Composer
Of Flesh and Blood
Movie · Original Music Composer
Any Number Can Win
Movie · Original Music Composer
Vice and Virtue
Movie · Original Music Composer
Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Movie · Original Music Composer
Symphony for a Massacre
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ladies First
Movie · Original Music Composer
Abel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Monkey in Winter
Movie · Original Music Composer
Love on a Pillow
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Movie · Music Director, Original Music Composer
Konga Yo
Movie · Original Music Composer
My Baby Is Black!
Movie · Original Music Composer