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The biography
Benjamin Brittan was a famous
English composer whose name is known
in many countries of the world.
He was born in 1913. He was only
five when he started to play the piano
and to compose music. By the time he
was nineteen, he was already both a
musician for a film company and a
composer. He wrote music for the plays
of several English writers.
In 1962 Benjamin Brittan finished a
very big musical work; the “War
Requiem”. The composer shows in it
how much he wanted peace for all
peoples.
Brittan had musical contacts with
musicians, singers and composers in
Russia. He visited our country several
times.
Vice-president
Benjamin Brittan became vicepresident of the peace organization
of musicians. So, you see, he write
music, compose operas and
symphonies.
Plays and operas
•Benjamin Brittan also wrote songs
and operas for children. He wrote a
piece of music called “The Young
Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”. It
can be taken as a handbook on all
the instruments of the orchestra. A
teacher can use this music to teach
children how to understand each of
the instruments in an orchestra.
Benjamin Brittan’s name
was so popular that the title
of an article in the Morning
Star on one of his birthdays
was “Great Brittan”.
He died in 1976.
Andrew Lloyd
Webber
 Andrew
Lloyd Webber is the most
successful composer of our time.
 He is best known for stage of his
musicals
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
 Cats (1994)
Evita (1996)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004).
 He
was born on March 22, 1948, in South
Kensington in London, England, the first
of two sons of William Lloyd Webber, an
organist and composer. His mother, Jean
Johnstone, was a pianist and violinist.
Young Andrew Lloyd Webber learned to
play various musical instruments at home
and began composing at an early age. He
continued his music studies at
Westminster School. At the age of 9,
young Andrew was able to play the organ.
In 1964 he went to Oxford University.
 Andrew
Lloyd
Webber shot to
fame in 1971 with
the opening of his
rock opera 'Jesus
Christ Superstar'
 The
record-breaking
production of 'Cats' was on
stage for 21 seasons, from
1981 - 2002, and became one
of the most popular musicals
of all time. It played the total
of 8,949 performances in
London and 7,485 in New
York.
In
1986 Andrew
Lloyd Webber
released his most
successful musical,
'The Phantom of the
Opera'
It is also the longest running
Broadway musical of all time
and the most financially
successful Broadway show in
history. 'The Phantom of the
Opera' was translated into
several languages and was
produced in more than twenty
countries as "clones" of the
original production.
He
was knighted Sir Andrew
Lloyd Webber in 1992, and was
created an honorary life peer in
1997 as Baron Lloyd-Webber,
of Syndmonton in the County
of Hampshire. He won the
1996 Academy Award for Best
Music, Original Song for Vita
(1996), and received two more
Oscar nominations .

Andrew Lloyd Webber is
currently working on his
new opera titled 'Master
and Margarita' based on
the eponymous novel by
Mikhail A. Bulgakov.

It doesn't take a musical
lover to appreciate the
grandiose theatrics of The
Phantom of the Opera, and
considering the phenomenal
success of Cats, Jesus Christ
Superstar, and Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, there seems to
be something for everyone in
Webber's musical universe.