---
name: "Martial Solal"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/martial-solal"
fi1m_id: "martial-solal"
imdb_id: "nm0812606"
tmdb_id: 3837
wikidata_id: "Q1317748"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "23 August 1927"
died: "12 December 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:33:08.403937+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Martial Solal

## Identity

Martial Solal

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/martial-solal
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** martial-solal
- **IMDb ID:** nm0812606
- **TMDB ID:** 3837
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1317748
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_Solal, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1317748, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812606/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3837

Composer. Born 23 August 1927 in Algiers, Algeria. Died 12 December 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 23 August 1927, Algiers, Algeria
- **Died:** 12 December 2024
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_Solal, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1317748, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812606/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3837

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Breathless*](https://film.one/film/breathless.md) (86)

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## Biography

Martial Solal was a French jazz pianist and composer. Born on 23 August 1927 in Algiers, French Algeria, he died on 12 December 2024 in Versailles, France. He settled in Paris in 1950, where he worked with Django Reinhardt and American expatriates including Sidney Bechet. He formed a quartet in the late 1950s and had been recording as a leader since 1953.

Solal composed music for more than 20 films. His scores include *Breathless* (1960), *Léon Morin, Priest* (1961), *Two Men in Manhattan* (1959) and *Les Acteurs* (2000). He performed at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963. From 1968 he performed and recorded with Lee Konitz.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, theguardian.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Breathless* (1960), Fi1m 86, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/breathless.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Actors* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Les Mardis de Mallarmé* (1998), Music
- *Ballade à blanc* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Backfire* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *A Touch of Treason* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Léon Morin, Priest* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Flamboyant Sex* (1961), Music
- *It Happened All Night* (1960), Music
- *Breathless* (1960), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/breathless.md)
- *Two Men in Manhattan* (1959), Original Music Composer

## Gallery

- ![Martial Solal](https://film.one/media/person/60014/gallery-d2977dcb69c9.jpg) Martial Solal — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Solal.jpg/1280px-Solal.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wolfgang Bleibel mit Martial Solal (Paris, Mai 2013)](https://film.one/media/person/60014/gallery-7b8dee393825.jpg) Wolfgang Bleibel mit Martial Solal (Paris, Mai 2013) — Vampirjäger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Wolfgang_Bleibel_Martial_Solal.jpg/1280px-Wolfgang_Bleibel_Martial_Solal.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wolfgang Bleibel mit Martial Solal (Paris, Mai 2013)](https://film.one/media/person/60014/gallery-a2208931c51a.jpg) Wolfgang Bleibel mit Martial Solal (Paris, Mai 2013) — Maximilian Bleibel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Wolfgang_Bleibel_mit_Martial_Solal_%28Paris%2C_Mai_2013%29.jpg/1280px-Wolfgang_Bleibel_mit_Martial_Solal_%28Paris%2C_Mai_2013%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 8 won

- grand prix de l'Académie du jazz 2021: grand prix de l'Académie du jazz (won)
- Jazzpar Prize 1999: Jazzpar Prize (won)
- Officer of the National Order of Merit 1998: Officer of the National Order of Merit (won)
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1997: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Knight of the Legion of Honour 1990: Knight of the Legion of Honour (won)
- Paul Acket Award 1986: Paul Acket Award (won)
- Grand Prix du Disque 1957: Grand Prix du Disque (won)
- Prix Django Reinhardt 1955: Prix Django Reinhardt (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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