“Love Story”composer Francis Lai is dead

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His melody for “Love Story” has touched many movie fans – and earned him an Oscar for Best film music: the composer Francis Lai died at the age of 86 years.

Francis Lai’s death, the mayor of his birth city of nice, Christian Estrosi, announced in the short message service Twitter. Lai was a “great musician and composer,” he wrote, and expressed to the family his condolences.

Lai was in the 50s as an accompanying musician of Edith Piaf are known. For you and many other great singers, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Johnny Hallyday, he wrote numerous Chansons. In total, he composed about 600 songs, and the Soundtracks to more than 100 feature and television films. For the second season of the popular German TV series “dream ship,” he wrote the music.

Probably the greatest success of the title tune to the Hollywood Drama “Love Story” (1970).

The story of a great love that must end because of a deadly disease much too early and touched many movie fans to tears – also, thanks to Lai’s Soundtrack. You gave Francis Lai an Oscar for Best film music, and has sold around six million Times. Further successes Lai celebrated his compositions to “a man and a woman” (1966) and “Bilitis” (1977).

Also posthumously Lai will be honoured: nice mayor Estrosi offered to the family to designate a Central square of the town after their famous son.

ka/suc (Twitter, FAZ)