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Sondheim, Stephen Joshua

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Sondheim, Stephen Joshua, 1930–, American composer and lyricist, b. New York City. As a young man, he studied lyric writing with Oscar Hammerstein Hammerstein, Oscar, 2d, 1895–1960, American lyricist and librettist, b. New York City, grad. Columbia Univ., 1916; grandson of Oscar Hammerstein. His first success was Wildflower (1923), with music by Vincent Youmans.
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 2d, and early in his career he wrote lyrics for Leonard Bernstein Bernstein, Leonard (bûrn`stīn, –stēn), 1918–90, American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. Lawrence, Mass.
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's West Side Story (1957) and collaborated with Jule Styne in the writing of Gypsy (1959). Later he composed his own music and lyrics for such musicals as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd (1979), and Merrily We Roll Along (1981). His later works include Sunday in the Park with George (1984; Pulitzer Prize), Into the Woods (1987), Passion (1994), Assassins (1999), and Bounce (2003). Widely regarded as the most important figure in the American musical theater of the late 20th cent., Sondheim has expanded the boundaries of lyric writing and subject matter, introduced complex characters and situations, brought a mordant wit and sophisticated lyricism to his words and music, and in the process reinvented the Broadway musical.

Bibliography

See biographies by G. Martin (1993) and M. Secrest (1998); studies by J. Gordon (1990, 1997).



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