Michel Legrand, the French composer, who won three Oscars during a career spanning more than half a century, has died. He first won for The Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair, and again for his music for Summer of ’42, and Yentl. He worked with everyone who was anyone in the music business, popular as well as jazz and latterly in classical music writing a piano concerto and a ballet. He was indefatigable and had been scheduled to hold concerts in Paris in April.
Born 24 February 1932 12.21 pm Paris, France (astrotheme) with a composer father who left when he was young and a mother herself the daughter of a conductor, he turned to music very young. He refused to go to school and taught himself to write music while left alone at home.
He was a Sun and midheaven in Pisces opposition Neptune so well-suited to a musical and filmic career; with flamboyant Jupiter in Leo in an adventurous trine to Uranus Venus in Aries. His Venus Uranus also squared Pluto, so he’d be constantly seeking change and excitement both emotionally and creatively.