France’s ‘sad clown’ commissioned his own concerto

The death of the iconic French actor Michel Blanc, aged 72, is being mourned in the highest corridors of power. President Macron said: ‘He made us cry with laughter, and moved us to tears.’ Prime minister Barnier said Blanc’s death had made him ‘very emotional and very sad’.

Twenty years ago, Blanc asked his friend, composer Eric Tanguy, to write a work for him, as narrator, with orchestra.

Music, says Tanguy, was his ‘absolute passion… He played the piano well, especially Brahms and Chopin.’

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