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Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers demonstrated his musical talent at an early age. By the time he was four he had begun to pick out tunes from “The Merry Widow” on the piano and ten years later he wrote his first song,...
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Harold Rome
While still attending school Rome played piano in local dance bands and was already writing music. Despite this early interest in music, he went on to study architecture and law at Yale. In 1934 he...
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Stephen Schwartz
One of the few new theatrical composers and lyricists to emerge in the ’70s, Schwartz studied at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he majored in drama, and at Juilliard. He worked as a record producer...
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Noble Sissle
Sissle’s early career was spent largely in vaudeville as a singer, and he also sang with the orchestra of James Reese Europe. However, his talents as a songwriter gradually drew him to Broadway where,...
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Stephen Sondheim
Active in major Broadway productions of American musical theater beginning in 1957, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (born 1930) redefined the Broadway musical form with his innovative and award...
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Peter Stone
Peter Stone was an acclaimed Tony- and Oscar-winning writer who began in TV and moved to motion pictures and the theater. The son of a schoolteacher turned motion picture producer, Stone was raised in...
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Charles Strouse
A composer who has experienced the sweet taste of Broadway success — but not for some considerable time. When Strouse graduated from the Eastman School of Music he intended to make a career in the...
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Jule Styne
Brilliant, prolific tunesmith who, over the course of a nearly 75-year long career, composed 2,000 songs, published 1,500 of them, and had somewhere around 200 of them become enormous hits or later...
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Kurt Weill
A distinguished composer, often for the musical theater, Weill studied piano and composition as a child, and at the age of 20 was conducting opera with local companies. By the mid-’20s he had...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has written some of the most commercially successful musicals of the last quarter of the 20th century. Among his most popular shows are “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor...
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