Andrew lloyd webber biography for kids

from the Hey Kid's Meet the Composer Index

Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in London, England in 1948.

His father was the director of the London College of Music and his mother was a piano teacher.

England is the home of Big Ben, fish and chips, and the Beatles.

At the age of three Andrew started playing the piano and violin.

By the age of six he had also taken an interest in the French horn and composing his own music. By the age of nine he was staging his own puppet theater productions with the help of his brother Julian and his Aunt Viola.

At 13 Andrew had composed his first stage musical, which he called Cinderella Up the Beanstalk and Most Everywhere Else.

Soon after college, Andrew Lloyd Webber staged his first professional production with lyricist Tim Rice.

It was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor