Claude-Michel Schönberg

I think Claude-Michel Schönberg might be the most quietly world-conquering composer of the last half-century — the guy grew up in a port town in Brittany and somehow went on to write the songs that make grown adults sob in theater seats on every continent. His partnership with Alain Boublil is one of the great creative alliances in musical theater history: Les Misérables alone has been running somewhere in the world almost continuously since 1985, and "Do You Hear the People Sing?" has become practically a protest anthem wherever people want to sound epic. Miss Saigon showed he wasn't a one-trick pony either — that score hits just as hard. A Tony for Best Original Score in 1987, a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2024, and still going: not bad for a Breton kid who started as a pop singer.

Name (English)

Claude-Michel Schönberg

Name (Japanese)

クロード・ミシェル・シェーンベルク

Reading

くろーど・みしぇる・しぇーんべるく

Born

July 6, 1944 (age 82)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Vannes, Morbihan, France

Occupation

composer / singer / screenwriter / record producer / librettist

Awards & achievements

• 2016 Officer of Arts and Letters
• 2024 Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 1987 Tony Award for Best Original Score

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF

Tags

• Morbihan
• composer
• singer
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.