Toccata by Paul Mauriat

Paul Mauriat (4 March 1925 -- 3 November 2006) was a French orchestra leader, specializing in light music. He is best known in the United States for his million selling remake of André Popp's "Love is Blue", which was #1 for 5 weeks in 1968. Other recordings for which he is known include El Bimbo, "Toccata" and "Penelope."
The famous composer, conductor and arranger Paul Mauriat was born on March 4, 1925 in French city Marseille in a family of two musicians. When Paul was 4, his father began teaching him piano and introduced him to classical and pop music. The boy started working in a variety show, but he stopped making performances in a few months in order to attend a music academy.
At the age of 10, young Paul entered Marseille Conservatory to study piano. He dreamed to become a musician. At Conservatory his friend introduced him to jazz music. Jazz that had been unknown for Paul before amazed him a lot! He had never heard anything like this before, so he was fascinated by rhythms of this music and his young heart was eager to make jazz. During one of meetings in a student jazz club Paul Mauriat got idea of creating his own jazz orchestra. He wanted to become a conductor, because it is conductor who had the greatest freedom in choosing music. After graduating with honors from Marseille Conservatory in 1939, Paul understood that it was not enough to have just classical music education to become a jazz musician and decided to continue his education.
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