How did Andrew Lloyd Webber get into composing?

Answer 1

Andrew Lloyd Webber grew up among an accomplished musical family. His late father William was director of the London College of Music, his mother Jean is a piano instructor, and his brother Julian, for whom Andrew composed Variations, is a noted concert cellist. As a young boy, Lloyd Webber played the piano, violin, and French horn, and his first composition, six short pieces titled The Toy Theatre Suite, was published when he was nine years old.

His musical idol was composer Richard Rodgers, composer of such stage classics as Oklahoma, The King and I, and South Pacific, the latter Lloyd Webber's personal favorite.

Lloyd Webber's formal education ended after only one term at Oxford.

Lloyd Webber studied music at the Royal College of Music located in the South Kensington district in Central London.

Answer 2

(born March 22, 1948, London, Eng.) British composer. He studied at Oxford and at the Royal College of Music. His first collaboration with lyricist Tim Rice (b. 1944), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), was followed by the rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar (1971), which blended classical forms with Rock Music. Their last major collaboration was Evita (1978). Lloyd Webber's eclectic rock-based works helped revitalize musical theatre. In both London and New York City, his musical Cats (1981), based on poems by T.S. Eliot, became the longest-running musical in history. He later collaborated on Starlight Express (1984), The Phantom of the Opera (1986), and Sunset Boulevard (1993), among other stage works; in 2006 The Phantom of the Operasurpassed Cats to become the longest-running show on Broadway. He was knighted in 1992 and ennobled in 1997.

Answer 3

his mom because she was a piano teacher and his dad because he was the director of the London college of music

Answer 4

Andrew Lloyd Webber's was surrounded by music at an early age, his mother was a music teacher, his brother was a classical violinist. The musical background is classical.

Answer 5

London