Biography
Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. He was born on 22 March 1930 in New York City and died on 26 November 2021.
He began his career writing lyrics for the stage musicals West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959). He later wrote both music and lyrics for numerous Broadway works, including A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984) and Into the Woods (1987).
Sondheim composed music for the film Reds (1981). Film adaptations of his stage works include West Side Story (1961), Gypsy (1962), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), A Little Night Music (1977), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Into the Woods (2014) and West Side Story (2021).
