Alexis Maingaud

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French composer of film music.

Born into a family of musicians, Alexis Maingaud began his musical journey at the age of six by learning to play the violin. From a young age, he listened to the music of greats such as Wagner, Brahms, Khachaturian, Ravel, Debussy, Shostakovich, Saint-Saëns and Dukas, always trying to reproduce what he heard on the family piano.

After several years occupying the different violin desks of the youth orchestra at the National Music School of Aulnay-sous-Bois, he finally chose the piano, which he had already been self-teaching himself for several years.

After studying writing, composition and conducting, he joined Guillaume Connesson's orchestration class at the regional conservatory of La Courneuve-Aubervilliers. In addition to his musical studies, Alexis Maingaud graduated with a Bachelor’s in Musicology (Sorbonne - Paris IV) and a higher education diploma in sound techniques (ESRA Paris). This latter experience enabled him to meet a number of young aspiring directors, for whom he would write his first scores.

He fell in love with cinema at an early age and throughout the 90s spent countless hours in theatres discovering some of the greatest productions of the American entertainment industry. One of his most memorable experiences was the film Dragon Heart, which he saw when he was eight. It was the first time he cried in a movie theater, and that’s when he understood it was in large part thanks to the music, by Randy Edelman.

Almost twenty years later, after scoring over sixty short films, several documentaries and a good few commercials around the world, he composed his first feature-length original soundtrack, for Olivier Wright’s debut film Psi (2017). In 2018, he was hired by British filmmaker Andrew Desmond to write the music for his film The Sonata, featuring Simon Abkarian and Rutger Hauer. For this, he conducted the National Orchestra of Ile-de-France and inaugurated the orchestra's brand-new recording studio.

At the crossroads between classical symphonic art, minimalist compositions, sound experiments and modular synthesis, Alexis Maingaud draws his inspiration above all from cinematic language: movement, sound, light.
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Albums
2025 Alexis Maingaud
02-07-2025
The Sonata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
01
Marlowe's Flame
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The Sonata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
00:43
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
02
London
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The Sonata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
00:23
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
03
The Notary
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The Sonata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
02:27
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
04
Voyage
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The Sonata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
02:41
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
05
Therese!
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The Sonata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
00:17
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
06
Marlowe’s Office
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The Sonata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
02:11
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
07
Something in the Window
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The Sonata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
00:36
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Alexis Maingaud
12-01-2018
Psi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
01
Opening
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Psi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
02:09
02
Five
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Psi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
05:55
03
Childhood
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Psi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
01:50
04
If
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Psi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
02:11
05
Regrets
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Psi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
04:54
06
The Ways of the Universe
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Psi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
02:05
07
Determined
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Psi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
03:57
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EPs
2024 Alexis Maingaud
16-12-2024
Ronces (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Ouverture
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Ronces (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
01:19
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
02
Ne le laisse jamais revenir
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Ronces (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
01:23
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
03
Balafres
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Ronces (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
01:20
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
04
Jacob
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Ronces (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
01:39
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
05
Regarde toi
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Ronces (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
03:33
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
Singles
2022 Alexis Maingaud
13-06-2022
Headway (Bande Originale du Film)
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Headway (Bande Originale du Film)
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Headway (Bande Originale du Film)
02:13
Writer: Alexis Maingaud / Composers: Alexis Maingaud
Alexis Maingaud
26-04-2016
Headway
01
Headway
Alexis Maingaud
Headway
02:13
Blend It Records
05-11-2012
You're Not Ugly
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You're Not Ugly
Ange Siddhar
You're Not Ugly
05:31
Composers: Ange Siddhar - Alexis Maingaud