Alan Menken

Alan Menken

  • Birthday: 1949-07-22
  • Place of birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA
  • Also know as: Alan Irwin Menken

Biography

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").

Filmography

Production

Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook

2021

As Additional Music

Aladdin

1992

As Original Music Composer

The Shaggy Dog

2006

As Original Music Composer

The Little Mermaid

1989

As Original Music Composer

Pocahontas

1995

As Original Music Composer

Enchanted

2007

As Songs

Enchanted

2007

As Original Music Composer

Mirror Mirror

2012

As Original Music Composer

Tangled

2010

As Original Music Composer

Noel

2004

As Music

Sausage Party

2016

As Original Music Composer

The Little Mermaid

1989

As Songs

Beauty and the Beast

1991

As Songs

Beauty and the Beast

1991

As Original Music Composer

Tangled

2010

As Songs

Aladdin

1992

As Songs

Home on the Range

2004

As Original Music Composer

Home on the Range

2004

As Songs

Hercules

1997

As Original Music Composer

Life with Mikey

1993

As Original Music Composer

Aladdin

2019

As Original Music Composer

Hunchback

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As Music

Howard

2018

As Original Music Composer

Spellbound

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As Original Music Composer

Tangled: The Musical

2020

As Music

The Little Mermaid Live!

2019

As Original Music Composer

The Little Mermaid

2023

As Original Music Composer

The Little Mermaid

2023

As Songs

Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice

1996

As Original Music Composer

Aladdin on Ice

1995

As Music

Voyage of the Little Mermaid

2012

As Original Music Composer

Disenchanted

2022

As Songs

Disenchanted

2022

As Original Music Composer

Little Shop of Horrors

1986

As Original Music Composer

Pocahontas

1995

As Songs

Aladdin

2019

As Songs

Hercules

1997

As Songs

Beauty and the Beast

2017

As Original Music Composer

Beauty and the Beast

2017

As Songs

Lincoln

1992

As Music

A Christmas Carol

2004

As Musical

Little Shop of Horrors

1986

As Musical

Newsies

2017

As Musical

Spellbound

0000

As Lyricist

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