CD Andrew Lloyd Webber: Welterfolge Ii - Importado

CD Andrew Lloyd Webber: Welterfolge Ii - Importado

Andrew Lloyd Webber has been the most successful composer of musicals of his generation and also a breaker of molds in the genre. The composers who inspired him were for the most part American, but he was born in London, the son of William Lloyd Webber, director of the London College of Music, and was trained at the Royal Academy of Music. Though the school wasn't a musical-theater stronghold, Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice met and began work on a musical based on the biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat showed strong rock influences. Soon the two hit on another unusual idea: a musical based on the life of Christ from Judas' point of view. Unable to finance a stage version, Lloyd Webber and Rice did manage to record their show, and Jesus Christ Superstar went on to sell millions of copies.