Andrew loyd webber
His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a renowned solo cellist. Recently, in a surprising move prompted by the 1982 death of his father, William Southcombe Lloyd Webber, organist at All Saints Church near Westminster Abbey. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of Lloyd Webber’s musicals under license from the Really Useful Group.Īndrew Lloyd Webber was born in Kensington, London, England, the son of Jean Hermione, a violinist and pianist, and William Lloyd Webber, a composer.
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His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London.
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Several of his songs, notably “The Music of the Night” from The Phantom of the Opera, “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from Jesus Christ Superstar, “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” from Evita, “Any Dream Will Do” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and “Memory” from Cats have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals. He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from the British Government for services to Music, seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success, and has been referred to as “the most commercially successful composer in history.” Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway.
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He started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine.
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Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.