Composer Claude-Michel Schönberg is best known for the musical Les Misérables,
and as a singer with the 1974 hit "Le Premier pas". Born in Vannes, Morbihan, on
July 6, 1944, to a family of Hungarian descent, related to the composer Arnold
Schönberg (1874-1951), he studied piano, which he played in the pop group Les
Vénètes, of which he was also the lead singer. Hired as artistic director by the
Pathé Marconi label, he worked with several artists and met lyricist Alain
Boublil, who became his main collaborator in writing musicals. Together with
Raymond Jeannot and Jean-Max Rivière...