Stephen Sondheim

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American composer and lyricist (1930-2021)

United States MusiciansLived 1930 to 2021 · aged 91

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Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical.

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Oscar Hammerstein c. 1940

Original Broadway Production of West Side Story

Sondheim in New York, 1972

1850 depiction of Sweeney Todd

Stephen Sondheim (2014)

Adam Guettel

Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton

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Awards 24

2016Carl Sandburg Literary Award

2015Presidential Medal of Freedom

2012Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

2007Grammy Trustees Award

2000Praemium Imperiale

2000Library of Congress Living Legend

1999Johnny Mercer Award

1994Tony Award for Best Original Score

1991Academy Award for Best Original Song

1988Tony Award for Best Original Score

1985Pulitzer Prize for Drama

1979Tony Award for Best Original Score

1974Edgar Awards

1973Tony Award for Best Original Score

1972Tony Award for Best Original Score

1971Tony Award for Best Original Score

1963Tony Award for Best Musical

Laurence Olivier Awards

National Medal of Arts

Kennedy Center Honors

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Hull-Warriner Award

Society of London Theatre Special Award

Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts

Connected to Stephen 6

Jarvis CockerAlso in Six by Sondheim (2013)

Hannah WaddinghamAlso in Into the Woods (2011)

Angela LansburyAlso in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)

Carol BurnettAlso in Putting It Together (2001)

Sophie ThompsonAlso in Company (1996)

Ariana DeBoseAlso in Company (2011)

About this person

Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. He received numerous accolades, including eight Tony Awards, an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, five Olivier Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1982 and awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.

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