Sound
Alan Menken
EN, DE cinema · 53 credits
Born
22 July 1949 (age 77)
Birthplace
New Rochelle, New York, USA
Also known as Alan Irwin Menken
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").
Known for
Filmography
Hunchback
Music
Spellbound
Lyricist, Original Music Composer
The Little Mermaid
Original Music Composer, Songs
Disenchanted
Songs, Original Music Composer
Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook
Additional Music, Lyricist
The Disney Family Singalong
as Self - Performer
Aladdin
Songs, Original Music Composer
The Little Mermaid Live!
Original Music Composer
Howard
as Self / Various Character Scratch Singing, Original Music Composer
Newsies
Musical
Beauty and the Beast
Original Music Composer, Songs
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
as Himself - Special Guest
Sausage Party
Original Music Composer
Aria for a Cow
Songs, Executive Producer
Mirror Mirror
Original Music Composer
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
Tangled
Original Music Composer, Songs
Enchanted
Songs, Original Music Composer
The Shaggy Dog
Original Music Composer
Home on the Range
Original Music Composer, Songs
Noel
Original Music Composer
Hercules
Original Music Composer, Songs
Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
Original Music Composer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Songs, Original Music Composer
Pocahontas
Original Music Composer, Songs
Aladdin on Ice
Original Music Composer
Life with Mikey
Original Music Composer
Aladdin
Original Music Composer, Songs
Newsies
Songs
Beauty and the Beast
Songs, Original Music Composer
The Little Mermaid
Original Music Composer, Songs
Little Shop of Horrors
Songs, Musical, Music