Michel Magne
Michel Magne (20 March 1930 in Lisieux, Calvados, France – 19 December 1984 in Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise[1]) was a French film and experimental music composer. 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.
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.[2]
In 1972, he married Marie-Claude, née Calvet, having met her in 1970, near Hérouville while she was hitch-hiking as a schoolgirl.[3] The couple moved to the south of France in 1974.[3]
Magne committed suicide in 1984, in a hotel room.[3]
Film scores[]
- 1955
- 1960
- (TV series)
- 1961
- 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
- 1963
- Les Tontons flingueurs
- Germinal
- Le Vice et la vertu
- Des frissons partout
- Méfiez-vous, mesdames
- OSS 117 se déchaîne
- 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
- 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
- Compartiment tueurs
- 1966
- 1967
- Untamable Angelique
- Johnny Banco
- À cœur joie
- Un homme de trop
- Fantômas contre Scotland Yard
- 1968
- The Sergeant
- Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
- (musical direction)
- Barbarella (musical direction)
- Angelique and the Sultan
- 1969
- 1970
- 1972
- 1973
- Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme... de Roger Vadim (orchestration)
- 1974
- 1976
- 1978
- Viol
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
References[]
- ^ p. 141 Cooper, Kim & Smay, David Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Misse 2005 Routledge
- ^ p.37 Wilcken, Hugo Low 2005 Continuum International Publishing Group
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Schofield, Hugh (27 December 2015). "The return of the Honky Chateau - BBC News". BBC Online. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
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
- 1930 births
- 1984 deaths
- People from Lisieux
- French film score composers
- French male film score composers
- 20th-century French composers
- Drug-related suicides in France
- 20th-century French male musicians
- 1984 suicides