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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parliament.uk – Lord Lloyd-Webber )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lord Lloyd Webber profile )〕 (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andrew Lloyd Webber profile )〕 Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. 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" 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''. He has received a number of awards, including a knighthood in 1992,〔Citron, Stephen (2001) (Sondheim and Lloyd-Webber: the new musical ) Oxford University Press US, 2001〕 followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to Music, seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Explore the Arts – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts )〕〔("Classic BRITs - Outstanding Contributions & Lifetime Achievement Awards" ). Classic FM. Retrieved 5 August 2015〕 He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fellows – The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors )〕 His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. Lloyd Webber is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London. He is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. In 1992 he set up the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture and heritage in the UK.〔("What we do" ). Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. Retrieved 16 August 2015〕 ==Early life== Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in Kensington, London, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), a composer and organist, and Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993), a violinist and pianist. His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a renowned solo cellist. Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age, a suite of six pieces at the age of nine. He also put on "productions" with Julian and his Aunt Viola in his toy theatre (which he built at Viola's suggestion). Later, he would be the owner of a number of West End theatres, including the Palace. His aunt Viola, an actress, took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre. He also had originally set music to Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats at the age of 15. In 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course in Winter 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music and pursue his interest in musical theatre.〔Katie Marsico (2010). (How to Analyze the Works of Andrew Lloyd Webber ) pp.13-14. ABDO, 2010〕〔''The Illustrated London News'', Volume 277. p.46. The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd., 1989〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Lloyd Webber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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