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After leaving Westminster School and spending a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, he entered the Royal College of Music to study musical theater.

By the age of 15, the young composer was already working on his own musicals, and his father enrolled him part-time at the Eric Gilder School of Music. In the meantime, he was exposed to theater by his aunt Viola, an actress. Andrew started writing his first melodies at age seven and compiled a suite of six piano pieces when he was 11. His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, became an internationally celebrated cellist.

soundtrack and cast album charts into a sixth decade.īorn in Kensington in 1948, Andrew Lloyd Webber took after his parents, violist/pianist Jean Hermione Johnstone and composer/organist William Lloyd Webber, a one-time director of the London College of Music. In 2020, a film version of Cats produced a highlights album that extended the composer's intermittent presence on the U.S. An EGOT winner, Lloyd Webber took home four Grammys in the '80s and '90s, won an Oscar (with Rice) for 'You Must Love Me' from the 1996 film adaptation of his Evita, and collected seven Tony Awards before capping off the acronym with an Emmy win for Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert in 2018. Over the years, Lloyd Webber occasionally branched into other forms, including a film score (1974's The Odessa File) and classical works (1985's Requiem), but he continued to premiere musicals at a regular rate, composing the music while frequent writing partners including Tim Rice and Don Black provided lyrics. The London native broke box-office records at home and in New York with shows like Cats (1981) and The Phantom of the Opera (1988), the former of which featured the hit song 'Memory' and latter of which became the longest-running show in Broadway history. Those works that also featured storytelling with no dialogue - including his third stage musical, 1971's Jesus Christ Superstar - were dubbed rock operas in the tradition of the Who's Tommy. His work typically combines dramatic, emotional plots with anthemic music that incorporates both classical and rock elements.

A prime torchbearer of the rock musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most successful Broadway and West End composer of his generation.

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