Maury Yeston (born October 23, 1945) is an American composer, lyricist, educator and musicologist. He is best known for writing the music and lyrics to Broadway musicals, including Nine in 1982, and Titanic in 1997, both of which won Tony Awards for best musical and best score. He also won a Drama Desk Award for Nine. Yeston also wrote a significant amount of the music and most of the lyrics to the Tony-nominated musical Grand Hotel in 1989, which was nominated for best score.

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  • Maury Yeston (born October 23, 1945) is an American composer, lyricist, educator and musicologist. He is best known for writing the music and lyrics to Broadway musicals, including Nine in 1982, and Titanic in 1997, both of which won Tony Awards for best musical and best score. He also won a Drama Desk Award for Nine. Yeston also wrote a significant amount of the music and most of the lyrics to the Tony-nominated musical Grand Hotel in 1989, which was nominated for best score. His musical version of the novel The Phantom of the Opera called Phantom has enjoyed numerous productions in the U.S. and around the world. He has also written a number of other off-Broadway musicals, a song cycle, a Cello Concerto, and other pieces. Yeston serves on the Board of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also President of the Kleban Foundation, serves on the editorial boards of Musical Quarterly and the Kurt Weill Foundation Publication Project and on the advisory board of the Yale University Press Broadway Series. He was the Director of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in New York City for two decades beginning in 1982.
  • Maury Yeston ist ein US-amerikanischer Musicalkomponist, Songtexter und Autor. Zudem lehrt er als Musikwissenschaftler und ist auch als wissenschaftlicher Autor tätig. Yeston studierte an der Yale University und am Clare College der Universität Cambridge. Bekannt wurde Yeston durch die Erfolge seiner Broadway-Stücke Nine, Titanic - Das Musical und Grand Hotel. Aber auch am Off-Broadway sind bemerkenswerte Stücke von ihm gespielt worden. Für die 100-Jahrfeier der Carnegie Hall in New York schrieb er 1991 die December Songs, einen modernen Liederzyklus, der auf Franz Schuberts Winterreise beruht und von Pia Douwes auf Deutsch eingesungen wurde. Aus dem Konzept-Album Goya – a life in song stammt der in der Interpretation von Barbra Streisand zum Hit gewordene Song Til I loved You, zudem sind auf dem Album Interpretationen von Plácido Domingo und Gloria Estefan zu hören. Neben seiner kreativen Tätigkeit ist Yeston Präsident diverser Stiftungen wie der Kurt Weill-Stiftung.
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  • Maury Yeston (born October 23, 1945) is an American composer, lyricist, educator and musicologist. He is best known for writing the music and lyrics to Broadway musicals, including Nine in 1982, and Titanic in 1997, both of which won Tony Awards for best musical and best score. He also won a Drama Desk Award for Nine. Yeston also wrote a significant amount of the music and most of the lyrics to the Tony-nominated musical Grand Hotel in 1989, which was nominated for best score.
  • Maury Yeston ist ein US-amerikanischer Musicalkomponist, Songtexter und Autor. Zudem lehrt er als Musikwissenschaftler und ist auch als wissenschaftlicher Autor tätig. Yeston studierte an der Yale University und am Clare College der Universität Cambridge. Bekannt wurde Yeston durch die Erfolge seiner Broadway-Stücke Nine, Titanic - Das Musical und Grand Hotel. Aber auch am Off-Broadway sind bemerkenswerte Stücke von ihm gespielt worden.
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