Michel Magne

Michel Magne

  • Birthday: 1930-03-20
  • Deathday: 1984-12-19
  • Place of birth: 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 3.0.

Filmography

Production

Fantomas Unleashed

1965

As Original Music Composer

Fantomas

1964

As Original Music Composer

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

1967

As Original Music Composer

The Sleeping Car Murder

1965

As Original Music Composer

Les Misérables

1982

As Original Music Composer

Male Hunt

1964

As Original Music Composer

Angelique and the King

1966

As Original Music Composer

Crooks in Clover

1963

As Original Music Composer

The Monocle's Sour Laugh

1964

As Original Music Composer

OSS 117 Is Unleashed

1963

As Original Music Composer

Safety Catch

1970

As Original Music Composer

Cold Sweat

1970

As Original Music Composer

Ivory Coast Adventure

1965

As Music

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman

1973

As Original Music Composer

Un ange au paradis

1973

As Music

Chinese In Paris

1974

As Music

Moi y'en a vouloir des sous

1973

As Original Music Composer

The Informer

1983

As Music

A Monkey in Winter

1962

As Original Music Composer

Germinal

1963

As Original Music Composer

Of Flesh and Blood

1963

As Original Music Composer

Love on a Pillow

1962

As Original Music Composer

Angelique

1964

As Original Music Composer

Rape

1978

As Music

The Strangers

1969

As Original Music Composer

Mission to Caracas

1965

As Original Music Composer

The Great Spy Chase

1964

As Original Music Composer

Any Number Can Win

1963

As Original Music Composer

S.A.S. San Salvador

1983

As Music

Johnny Banco

1967

As Music

Vice and Virtue

1963

As Original Music Composer

Crime on a Summer Morning

1965

As Original Music Composer

Nea

1976

As Music

Shock Troops

1967

As Original Music Composer

Four Nights of a Dreamer

1971

As Original Music Composer

Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent

1964

As Original Music Composer

Brigade Anti Gangs

1966

As Original Music Composer

Circle of Love

1964

As Original Music Composer

My Baby Is Black!

1961

As Music

Emmanuelle 4

1984

As Original Music Composer

Konga Yo

1962

As Music

The Sergeant

1968

As Music

Emmanuelle 4

1984

As Music

Ladies First

1963

As Music

Galia

1966

As Music

Untamable Angelique

1967

As Original Music Composer

Angelique: The Road To Versailles

1965

As Original Music Composer

Angelique and the Sultan

1968

As Original Music Composer

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

1962

As Music Director

The Looters

1967

As Original Music Composer

Sorrel Flower

1967

As Original Music Composer

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

1965

As Original Music Composer

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

1964

As Music

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