Edgar Bischoff

Edgar Bischoff, also known by the alias Francis Mainville, was a Romanian-born French composer and lyricist.

Biography

Bischoff was born in Ploiești, Romania, the son of Louise and Léon Bischoff. He studied in the National [University of Music Bucharest|Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Art] in Bucharest and then in the École Normale [de Musique de Paris], after which he remained in France. In 1949 he wrote the film score of Le Silence de [la mer |Le Silence de la mer] and later for movies such as mime artist Marcel Marceau's Der Mantel.
He continued writing stage music, television and film score to the end of the 1970s. He died in the Paris suburb of Draveil in 1995, aged 83.