Meredith Willson

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Meredith Willson was an American composer, songwriter, conductor, and playwright best known for creating the hit Broadway musical "The Music Man."

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instanceOf American composer
composer
conductor
human
playwright
songwriter
awardReceived Tony Award for Best Musical
surface form: Tony Award for Best Musical (for The Music Man, as composer-lyricist)
basedOn Mason City, Iowa, United States
surface form: Mason City, Iowa
birthName Robert Meredith Willson
burialPlace Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles
surface form: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California, United States
composedSong It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Seventy-Six Trombones
Till There Was You
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1902-05-18
dateOfDeath 1984-06-15
employer NBC Radio
familyName Willson
genre musical theatre
popular music
givenName Meredith
Robert
inspiredSettingOf River City
surface form: River City in The Music Man
language English
memberOf John Philip Sousa Band
New York Philharmonic
name Meredith Willson self-link
notableWork Here’s Love
The Music Man
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
occupation composer
conductor
playwright
radio personality
songwriter
placeOfBirth Mason City, Iowa, United States
placeOfDeath Santa Monica, California, United States
playedInstrument flute
piccolo
spouse Elizabeth Wilson
Rilla Zuckerkandle
Rini Ziegler
subjectOf film adaptation of The Music Man (1962)
wroteAutobiography And There I Stood With My Piccolo
Eggs I Have Laid
wroteMusical Here’s Love
The Music Man
The Unsinkable Molly Brown

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The Music Man bookWriter Meredith Willson
The Music Man composer Meredith Willson
The Music Man lyricist Meredith Willson
The Great Dictator musicBy Meredith Willson
Meredith Willson name Meredith Willson self-link
Kermit Bloomgarden notableCollaboration Meredith Willson