Who is Alan Menken?

Alan Menken, an American composer of musicals and soundtracks of the film, was born on July 22, 1949 in New Rochll, New York. He played both the violin and the piano, in high school and after a short time as a preliminary major at the University of New York watched music and watched his time at NYU with Stint in Lehman Engel Musicalshop of Broadcast, Inc. (BMI). In 1979 they appeared outside Broadway. Roger Corman Little Shop of Horrors first as the musical off-Broadway, which was nominated for the drama Desk Award for excellent music and then as a feature film that contained a song that was nominated for the academic prize for the original song. When Disney decided to return to the production of animated feature films, they hired Ashman and Menken to create a Little Mermaid .

The Little The Littlelemermaid called the beginning of the Menken-Disney dynasty. Menken has worked on:

• Beauty and the Beast with Ashman
• Aladdin with Ashman and Tim Rice, who entered Ashman's premature death
• Newsies wrote Bob Tzudiker and Noni White
• Pocahontas with Stephen Schwartz
• HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME SCHWARTZ
• Hercules with David Zippel
• Home on the range with Glenn Slater
• Shaggy Dog
• Enchanted with Schwartz

  Menken also edited his Disney for Broadway and other theater places as well as written music for several episodes of Simpson "My Christmas Tree" for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and "Man's" for

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  By 2008, Menken won four Academy Awards for Best Original Scores and Four for the Best Originally Song for the same features: The Little Mermaid , Beauty and the Beast , Aladdin a Pocahontas . The same four won the Golden AwardsGlobe Awards for the best original song and Grammy Awards for the best song written for film, television or other visual media and the first three won Golden Globes for the best original score. Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin also won the Grammy Awards for the best score of the soundtrack album for film, television or other visual media.