Lerner and Loewe
Lerner and Loewe were a "songwriting team" known for their successful work in American music theater in the 1940s and 1950s.
The much younger Alan Jay Lerner learned Frederick Loewe in 1942, two years after graduating from Harvard University know. Their collaboration began for the musical Life of the Party . From then on, Lerner wrote the books and lyrics, Loewe composed the music. They became famous with My Fair Lady . In addition to Rodgers and Hammerstein , they had a decisive influence on the character and development of the musical. There were differences over the work on Camelot and the partnership ended - Loewe also retired for health reasons - until a renewed collaboration with Lerner at the beginning of the 1970s.
Learner about Loewe, “There will never be another Fritz. Writing will never again be as much fun. A collaboration as intense as ours inescapably had to be complex. But I loved him more than I understood or misunderstood him, and I know he loved me more than he understood or misunderstood me. "
Works
Musicals
- 1942: Life of the Party
- 1943: What's Up?
- 1945: The Day Before Spring
- 1947: Brigadoon
- 1951: Paint Your Wagon
- 1956: My Fair Lady
- 1960: Camelot
- 1973: Gigi
Film work
- 1958: Gigi - directed by Vincente Minnelli (with Leslie Caron , Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan )
- 1974: The Little Prince - Director: Stanley Donen (with Bob Fosse , Gene Wilder )
Film adaptations
- 1954 Brigadoon Director: Vincente Minnelli (with Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse )
- 1964 - My Fair Lady - Director: George Cukor (with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison )
- 1967 - Camelot - At the court of King Arthur - Director: Joshua Logan (with Richard Harris , Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings )
- 1969 - The wind pulls westwards (Original title Paint Your Wagon ) - Director: Joshua Logan (with Lee Marvin , Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg )
Other well-known teams
- Rodgers and Hammerstein
- Rodgers and Hart
- Kander and Ebb
- Schmidt and Jones
- Sherman brothers
- Gershwin brothers
swell
- ^ John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts Lerner and Loewe Bioraphy .