Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 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 successful outside of their parent musicals, such as "Memory" from Cats, "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" from Evita, and "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 2001, The New York Times referred him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". The Daily Telegraph ranked him the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" in 2008, with lyricist Don Black writing "Andrew more or less single-
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Barón Lloyd-Webber, (nacido el 22 de marzo de 1948) es un compositor inglés e impresario del teatro musical. Varios de sus musicales han estado en marcha durante más de una década tanto en el West End como en Broadway. Ha compuesto 21 musicales, un ciclo de canciones, un conjunto de variaciones, dos resultados de película, y una misa de Requiem latino. Varias de sus canciones han sido ampliamente grabadas y han sido exitosas fuera de sus musicales padres, como "Memory" de Cats, "The Music of the Night" y "All I Ask of You" de The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" de Jesus Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" de Evita, y "Any Dream Will Do" de Joseph y el Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. En 2001, The New York Times lo refería como el "compositor más exitoso comercialmente en la historia del Daily".