"Musical theatre giant" Steven Sandheim died at the age of 91

On Friday, November 26, 1905 local time, musical songwriter and soundtrackist Steven Sondheim died at the age of 91 at his home in Connecticut. Announcing the news was his lawyer, Richard Papa, who said Sandheim's death was very sudden and sad.

Steven Sandheim is a famous American musician and is known as the originator of concept musicals. Born in New York in 1930 to a family of cloth merchants, Sondheim was initiated by the famous playwright and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II to embark on a musical path. In 1984, Stephen Sundheim won a Pulitzer Prize for the musical Sunday and George, and in 1991, he won the 63rd Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Sooner or Later" for the film "The Supreme Detective". Throughout his career, he has won 1 Academy Award, 8 Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, and 1 Pulitzer Prize. His notable works include: "Friends", "Spring Full of Ancient Cities", "Barber Todd" and "Magical Black Forest". He was president of the American Playwrights Association from 1973 to 1981.

Stephen Sundheim's music and lyrics "reinvented American musicals of the second half of the 20th century," raising the artistic bar for American musical theater and inspiring many broadway rising stars such as Jonathan Larson and Lin-Manuel Miranda. In the newly released musical "Countdown", Steven Sundheim, a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist, appears.