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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his
musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of
variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent
musicals, 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" and "You ...read more
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his
musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of
variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent
musicals, 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" and "You Must Love Me" from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat and "Memory" from Cats. In 2001 The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially
successful composer in history". Ranked the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" by The Telegraph in 2008, "Andrew more or
less single-handedly reinvented the musical," according to the lyricist Don Black.
He has received a number of awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to Music,
seven Tonys, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier
Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to
Music. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy
of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged
productions, including national tours, of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. Lloyd Webber is also the
president of the Arts Educational Schools London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London. He is involved in a number of
charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. In 1992 he set up the
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture and heritage in the UK.
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