Alan Menken

Personal Info

Known For

Sound

Known Credits

15

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-07-22 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

New Rochelle, New York, USA

Also Known As

  • Alan Irwin Menken

Alan 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").

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Crew

2021
Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook as Additional Music

Production

2015
Galavant as Executive Producer

Sound

Hunchback as Music
Spellbound as Original Music Composer
2023
The Little Mermaid as Original Music Composer
2023
The Little Mermaid as Songs
2022
Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration as Music
2022
Disenchanted as Songs
2022
Disenchanted as Original Music Composer
2020
Tangled: The Musical as Music
2019
The Little Mermaid Live! as Original Music Composer
2019
Aladdin as Original Music Composer
2019
Aladdin as Songs
2018
Howard as Original Music Composer
2017
Beauty and the Beast as Original Music Composer
2017
Beauty and the Beast as Songs
2017
Tangled: Before Ever After as Songs
2016
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater as Music
2016
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater as Songs
2016
Sausage Party as Original Music Composer
2015
Galavant as Music
2012
Voyage of the Little Mermaid as Original Music Composer
2012
Mirror Mirror as Original Music Composer
2010
Tangled as Original Music Composer
2010
Tangled as Songs
2007
Enchanted as Songs
2007
Enchanted as Original Music Composer
2006
The Shaggy Dog as Original Music Composer
2004
Noel as Music
2004
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream as Music
2004
Home on the Range as Original Music Composer
2004
Home on the Range as Songs
1999
Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits as Music
1997
Hercules as Original Music Composer
1997
Hercules as Songs
1996
Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice as Original Music Composer
1996
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Music
1996
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Songs
1995
Aladdin on Ice as Music
1995
Pocahontas as Original Music Composer
1995
Pocahontas as Songs
1993
Life with Mikey as Original Music Composer
1992
Lincoln as Music
1992
Aladdin as Original Music Composer
1992
Aladdin as Songs
1991
Beauty and the Beast as Songs
1991
Beauty and the Beast as Original Music Composer
1990
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue as Music
1989
The Little Mermaid as Original Music Composer
1989
The Little Mermaid as Songs
1988
Madeline as Songs
1986
Little Shop of Horrors as Original Music Composer
1986
Little Shop of Horrors as Songs

Writing

Spellbound as Lyricist
2021
Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook as Lyricist
2017
Newsies as Musical
2004
A Christmas Carol as Musical
1986
Little Shop of Horrors as Musical
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