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Claude-Michel Schönberg is a French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with the librettist Alain Boublil.
These include the musicals:
Schönberg began his career as a record producer. By the early 1970s he had become successful.
He wrote most of the music for the French musical and rock opera, La Révolution Française, France's first rock opera, in 1973, and also played the role of King Louis XVI in the show's production that year.
In 1974 he wrote the music and the lyrics to the song "Le Premier Pas", which became the number 1 popular song in France that year.
Schönberg then made an album in which he sang his own songs. In 1978 he dedicated his full attention to musicals when he and Boubil thought about the idea for Les Misérables. Since then he has been working on musicals and in overseeing many of the productions of his musicals.
His music is known for its melodic harmonies.
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