Latest Release

- DEC 20, 2024
- 18 Songs
- Wicked: The Soundtrack · 2024
- Disney's Greatest, Vol. 2 · 1996
- Wicked: The Original Motion Picture Score · 2024
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Studio Cast Recording) · 2016
- When You Believe - Single · 2020
- Wicked: The Original Motion Picture Score · 2024
- Wicked: The Original Motion Picture Score · 2024
- Godspell (2001 National Touring Cast) · 2001
- Godspell - A Musical Based Upon the Gospel According to St. Matthew (Original 1971 Cherry Lane Theater Cast) · 1971
- Godspell - A Musical Based Upon the Gospel According to St. Matthew (Original 1971 Cherry Lane Theater Cast) · 1971
Essential Albums
- What started life as unlikely political metaphor and beloved children’s tale, L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz became one of Hollywood’s greatest film musical landmarks in 1939, a cultural touchstone that’s spawned a virtually non-stop series of revivals and adaptations ever since. But Godspell/Pippin composer Stephen Schwartz’s 21st century Broadway musical version comes courtesy of a slightly more obtuse take on Baum’s story: novelist Gregory Maguire’s 1995 revisionist prequel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Schwartz’s shrewd formula of fusing traditional Broadway with MOR pop-rock gives Tony-winner Kristen Chenoweth (in the beefed-up role of Glinda) several star turns, while co-stars Idina Menzel (as the misunderstood title character) and Wizard Joel Grey light up “The Wizard and I” and “A Sentimental Man,” respectively.
Music Videos
- 2013
Compilations
About Stephen Schwartz
One of the most successful Broadway and film composer/lyricists of his generation, Stephen Schwartz is recognized for his soaring melodies and insightful, character-driven lyrics. After making his off-Broadway debut in 1971 with Godspell -- which took home the Grammy for best score from a cast album -- he went on to write the music and lyrics for such stage and screen blockbusters as Pippin (1972), Disney's Pocahontas (1995), DreamWorks' The Prince of Egypt (1998), and Broadway's Wicked (2003). He has collected three Academy Awards along the way, for Pocahontas' score and Best Original Song "Colors of the Wind," both with Alan Menken, and for "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt. He and Menken had three songs from Disney's Enchanted (2007) nominated for the best song Oscar. Schwartz's ninth Oscar nomination came for his ambitious score (with John Powell) for the big-screen adaptation of Wicked (2024).
- FROM
- New York, United States of America
- BORN
- 1948
- GENRE
- Musicals