My favorites lyricist/composers
by worldfchanges | created - 19 Jun 2018 | updated - 19 Jun 2018 | Public
1. Alan Menken
Soundtrack | Beauty and the Beast
Alan Menken is an American composer, songwriter, music conductor, director and record producer.
Menken is best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and ...
Composer Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin
2. Howard Ashman
Soundtrack | Beauty and the Beast
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Howard Ashman moved to New York City in 1974 and began writing plays while working as an editor in a publishing house. His work attracted attention and he became WPA Theatre's artist director in 1977. In 1982, Ashman collaborated with composer Alan Menken on the ...
Lyricist The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast
3. David Zippel
Soundtrack | Hercules
David Zippel is a lyricist and director. His lyrics have won him the Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, two Grammy Award nominations, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. His songs appear on over twenty-five million CDs around the world, and have been recorded by many great singers ...
Lyricist Hercules, Mulan
4. Mark Mancina
Composer | Speed
Known for his wide-ranging talents, Mark Mancina's film scores traverse almost every genre: drama, action, comedy, suspense, and period epic. His dark, edgy music for the Oscar-winning Training Day (2001), is a benchmark score that expanded the boundaries of scoring street-wise drama, and is widely...
Composer Tarzan, Moana, The Lion King (Broadway)
5. Stephen Schwartz
Soundtrack | Pocahontas
Stephen Schwartz was born on March 6, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a composer and writer, known for Pocahontas (1995), The Prince of Egypt (1998) and Enchanted (2007). He has been married to Carole Piasecki since July 6, 1969. They have two children.
Lyricist The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas, Enchanted
6. Hans Zimmer
Composer | Gladiator
German-born composer Hans Zimmer is recognized as one of Hollywood's most innovative musical talents. He featured in the music video for The Buggles' single "Video Killed the Radio Star", which became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video to ...
Composer The Lion King, August Rush
7. Tim Rice
Soundtrack | Aladdin
A prolific lyricist and librettist, Tim Rice was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, in the fall of 1944. Rice pursued his university education at Lancing College and, briefly, at l'Universite de Paris - Sorbonne. He was considering a legal career around the time that he met Andrew Lloyd Webber in ...
Lyricist Aladdin, The Lion King, Evita (Broadway)
8. Lin-Manuel Miranda
Soundtrack | Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the first incarnation of "In the Heights" his sophomore year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Off-Broadway, "In The Heights" received nine Drama Desk nominations, including best music, best lyrics, and it won the award for outstanding ensemble performance; received ...
Lyricist Hamilton, Moana
9. Dario Marianelli
Composer | Atonement
Dario Marianelli was born in Pisa and studied piano and composition in Florence and London. After a year as a postgraduate composer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he spent 3 years at the National Film and Television School, from which he graduated in 1997. Dario's film scores include '...
Composer Pride And Prejudice, Atonement
10. John Williams
Composer | Jurassic Park
As one of the best known, awarded, and financially successful composers in US history, John Williams is as easy to recall as John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland or Leonard Bernstein, illustrating why he is "America's composer" time and again. With a massive list of awards that includes over 52 Oscar ...
Composer Harry Potter
11. Michael Giacchino
Composer | Star Trek
Michael Giacchino is an American composer of music for films, television and video games.
Giacchino composed the scores to the television series Lost, Alias and Fringe, the video game series Medal of Honor and Call of Duty and many films such as The Incredibles (2004), Star Trek (2009), Up (2009), ...
Composer Ratatoullie, Coco
12. Thomas Newman
Music_department | Skyfall
Thomas Newman is an American film score composer. He was born in Los Angeles. His father was notable film score composer Alfred Newman (1900-1970). The Newman family is of Russian-Jewish descent, and includes several other well-known musicians. Thomas' mother Martha Louis Montgomery (1920-2005) ...
Composer Finding Nemo, Wall-E, The Help
13. Justin Hurwitz
Soundtrack | La La Land
Justin Hurwitz was born on January 22, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for La La Land (2016), First Man (2018) and Whiplash (2014).
Composer La La Land, Whiplash
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