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Mitch Leigh

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Year of Birth:1928
Year of death:1988

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Mitch Leigh (born Irwin Michnick; January 30, 1928March 16, 2014) was an American musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the musical Man of La Mancha.
Leigh was born in Brooklyn, New York as Irwin Michnick. He graduated from Yale in 1951 with a Bachelor of Music, and in 1952 received his Master of Music under Paul Hindemith.
He began his career as a jazz musician, and writing commercials for radio and television. On the 1955 LP recording... more

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