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![Listen to Into the Woods (2014 Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition] by Stephen Sondheim](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music128/v4/58/cf/62/58cf621d-3f58-0719-4c10-b312ae8b6db5/00050087317669.rgb.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Into the Woods (2014 Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition] by Stephen Sondheim")
![Listen to Merrily We Roll Along (The New Cast Recording) [1994 Off-Broadway] by Stephen Sondheim](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music128/v4/7a/0e/e3/7a0ee360-ab1a-ca27-6bd3-4a05a6456d91/00030206554823.rgb.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Merrily We Roll Along (The New Cast Recording) [1994 Off-Broadway] by Stephen Sondheim")
![Listen to Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Bonus Tracks] by Stephen Sondheim](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music114/v4/34/ec/50/34ec50c6-ebb3-c427-a207-5fff9a098dd3/mzi.wdgmwlkh.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Bonus Tracks] by Stephen Sondheim")
![Listen to Pacific Overtures (Original 1987 London Cast) [2025 Remaster] by Stephen Sondheim, Richard Angas & English National Opera Orchestra](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/49/5e/bf/495ebf29-8c03-edd7-4680-7befd5483ebf/605288443725.png/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Pacific Overtures (Original 1987 London Cast) [2025 Remaster] by Stephen Sondheim, Richard Angas & English National Opera Orchestra")
![Listen to Company (Original Broadway Cast) [Bonus Track] by Stephen Sondheim](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/63/b1/60/mzi.zonxiaqv.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Company (Original Broadway Cast) [Bonus Track] by Stephen Sondheim")
![Listen to Gypsy (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [50th Anniversary Edition] by Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features/69/7f/9f/dj.qbsipvxb.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Gypsy (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [50th Anniversary Edition] by Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim")
![Listen to West Side Story (Original 1957 Broadway Cast) [2018 Remaster] by Stephen Sondheim, Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence & Chita Rivera](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music118/v4/19/7d/01/197d01be-1a64-da10-d13a-0d48fe4e305d/886446466620.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to West Side Story (Original 1957 Broadway Cast) [2018 Remaster] by Stephen Sondheim, Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence & Chita Rivera")
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About Stephen Sondheim
Hometown
New York, United States of America
Born
1930
Genre
Soundtrack
Stephen Sondheim proved that musical theater could adapt to any era. A favorite composer and lyricist of those suspicious of melodrama—and of musicals in general—the native New Yorker brought a revolutionary's spirit to Broadway, and his stylistic daring left an unmistakable stamp on everyone from Lin-Manuel Miranda to indie-pop maestro Stephin Merritt. Sondheim grew up studying the Great American Songbook masters, learning their seat-filling tricks as a precocious theater-goer in the '40s, but he was already yearning to push into new political, musical, and emotional territory when he made his own debut in the '50s. His lyrics smuggled the social dramas of the day into seemingly escapist entertainment (West Side Story), merging the slang-infused wit of city life with a love of finely wrought poetry. He had a range like no one else; his shows could be formally audacious (Assassins), emotionally wrenching (Company), or uproariously farcical (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), yet his melodies were both instantly memorable and subtly radical. And his sophisticated modern standards, like "Send in the Clowns,” reached far outside Broadway’s orbit, having been endlessly reinterpreted by rockers, folkies, and soul singers. The key to his success? As Sondheim told Miranda when he was workshopping Hamilton: “Variety, variety, variety, Lin. Don’t let up for a second. Surprise us." Sondheim died on November 26, 2021, at the age of 91.
Musical InfluencesStephen Sondheim's musical influences include George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Mack Gordon and more.
Influenced by Stephen SondheimStephen Sondheim has influenced the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Judy Collins, Stephen Schwartz and more.
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