Michel Magne
Michel Magne (* March 20, 1930 in Lisieux, Calvados, † December 19, 1984 in Cergy- Pontoise, Val- d'Oise department ) was a French composer, musician, record producer, and painter.
Life
Michel Magne was born the fifth of eight children on March 20, 1930 in Lisieux. After he began playing the piano at the age of six, he later studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de both Caen and at the Conservatoire de Paris music. To finance his studies, he played in parallel several concerts in Normandy. In Paris, he discovered electronic music for themselves. During his subsequent military service he conducted the orchestra in Montlhery and was detailed for several performances. After his military service, he moved to Rochechouart, where he found employment at the Hôtel Jean Mermoz and the studies on infrasound gave.
After 1954 he composed a film score for the first time with the bread of life, he began Songs for the French opera singer Juliette Greco to write. In 1962 he bought the Château d' Hérouville that should be the place for his own music studio. He renovated the building and composed in the years that followed annually up to eight films, including all Fantomas, the OSS 117 film series and all five Angélique films. On May 26, 1969, however, the disaster that absolutely matched his career as a composer came to a halt. A complete wing of his castle down with him and burned his entire musical output, his sheet music, and his musical archive. Although he built together with Gérard Delassus in August 1969 again a music studio in another wing and founded in November 1969 his production company Société d' Enregistrement Michel Magne, but he focused in the next six years almost exclusively on painting and wrote only isolated music. However, his music studio was extensively used by well-known international musicians, including Elton John, Cat Stevens, Canned Heat, Pink Floyd and T. Rex. After he had greater success as a painter and occasional exhibitions, in 1977 he moved back to Paris, where he founded the record label Egg.
On June 28, 1960 Michel Magne married the dancer Monique Vence, from 1970 he parted again. Subsequently, he was romantically involved with 16 -year-old Marie Claude, whom he married in 1972.
On 19 December 1984 Michel Magne died in a hotel in Cergy -Pontoise by suicide.