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Alan Menken
New Rochelle, New York, USA
Alan Irwin Menken (born July 12, 1949) is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney…
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Alan Irwin Menken (born July 12, 1949) is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Menken's music for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) has each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010), and Disenchanted (2022), among others. His accolades include winning eight Academy Awards — becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars), a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of nineteen people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony ("an EGOT").
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2024
Spellbound
Movie Lyricist
- 2023
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2023
The Little Mermaid
Movie Original Music Composer
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2022
Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration
Movie Music
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2022
Disenchanted
Movie Songs
- 2022
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2021
Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook
Movie Additional Music
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2020
An Evening with Alan Menken
Movie Himself
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2020
Tangled: The Musical
Movie Music
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2020
Central Park
TV show Songs
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2020
The Disney Family Singalong
Movie Self - Performer
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2019
The Little Mermaid Live!
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
Aladdin
Movie Songs
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2018
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Movie Songs
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2018
Howard
Movie Self / Various Character Scratch Singing
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2017
Beauty and the Beast
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
Tangled: Before Ever After
Movie Songs
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2017
Newsies
Movie Musical
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2016
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
Movie Himself - Special Guest
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2016
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
Movie Music
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2016
Sausage Party
Movie Original Music Composer
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2015
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Movie Himself
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2015
Aria for a Cow
Movie Songs
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2015
Galavant
TV show Music
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2012
Mirror Mirror
Movie Original Music Composer
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2011
Hollywood in Vienna
TV show Self
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2010
Tangled
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2010
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2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
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2009
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
Movie Self
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2007
Enchanted
Movie Songs
- 2006
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2006
The Shaggy Dog
Movie Original Music Composer
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2004
A Christmas Carol
Movie Musical
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2004
Noel
Movie Original Music Composer
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2004
Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
Movie Self
- 2004
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2004
Home on the Range
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2003
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1999
Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits
Movie Music
