Stephen Schwartz

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Born:
March 6, 1948, he's 64 and American.
Birthname:
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz.
Snapshot:
An Artist with 26 releases, and credited 8 times on others' music. 6 collaborations.

Biography

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Stephen Schwartz is a multi-award winning theatrical composer born in New York in 1948. He is one of only four composers to have three ‘1000 performance shows’ on Broadway, with Pippin, The Magic Show and Wicked.

He made his debut with the title song for the play and film Butterflies are Free in 1972, and he went on to have success as a lyricist, composer and director on works including Godspell, which earned him two Grammys, The Magic Show, and Wicked, the multi-award winning play which broke box office records around the world. Schwartz worked with Joseph Stein on The Baker’s Wife which, despite its commercial shortcomings, received critical praise with the London staging nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Musical of the Year. The soundtrack album has since achieved cult status.

In 1971 his work was thought good enough for presidents, when he, Leonard Bernstein and Paul Simon worked together on Mass, a work commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts.

In addition to his work for the theatre, he has also composed music for major animated films including The Prince of Egypt, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Pocahontas for which he won two Academy Awards.

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Discography

34 releases – 26 under his own name and 8 credits on others' music Edit
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