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Andrew Lloyd Webber

1948 - Today

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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 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of Lloyd Webber's songs have been widely recorded and widely successful outside their parent musicals, such as "Memory" from Cats, "The Music of the Night" and "All I Ask of You" 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, and "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Lloyd Webber is the 59th most popular composer (up from 312th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 944th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Composer.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is most famous for composing musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Jesus Christ Superstar.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Andrew Lloyd Webber ranks 59 out of 1,451. Before him are Edward Elgar, Georg Philipp Telemann, Aram Khachaturian, Carl Maria von Weber, Guillaume Du Fay, and Jean-Philippe Rameau. After him are Charles Gounod, Anton Webern, Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and Henry Purcell.

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Among people born in 1948, Andrew Lloyd Webber ranks 7. Before him are Charles, Prince of Wales, Al Gore, George R. R. Martin, Jean Reno, Gérard Depardieu, and Jean-Michel Jarre. After him are Svetlana Alexievich, Terry Pratchett, Cat Stevens, Samuel L. Jackson, Ozzy Osbourne, and Eckhart Tolle.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Lloyd Webber ranks 158 out of 8,785. Before him are Marianne Faithfull (1946), Thomas Andrews (1873), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), Neville Chamberlain (1869), Liam Neeson (1952), and Anna Wintour (1949). After him are John Milton (1608), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Arthur Henderson (1863), John Macleod (1876), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), and Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (1935).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Andrew Lloyd Webber ranks 2. Before him are Edward Elgar (1857). After him are Henry Purcell (1659), Benjamin Britten (1913), Christopher Hogwood (1941), William Byrd (1543), Gustav Holst (1874), John Barry (1933), Eugen d'Albert (1864), Thomas Tallis (1502), Keith Emerson (1944), and Michael Nyman (1944).

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