Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Biography

Andrew Lloyd Webber (Baron Lloyd-Webber) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. 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 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 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, the lyricist Don Black stated “Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical”.