Jonathan Larson
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American composer and playwright (1960–1996)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Cavalier
- Seasons of Love (from Rent) (Sheet Music)
- Rent Songbook
- Seasons of Love (From Rent)
- Tick, Tick ... BOOM! (Songbook)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1960-02-04
- Active to
- 1996-01-25
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 150,982
- Total plays
- 4,976,649
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Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer from New York City who created musicals including Rent (1996) and tick, tick...BOOM! (1990). These musicals seriously tackle issues such as multiculturalism, addiction, sexual orientation and HIV. Rent was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won four Tony Awards. The scores of his shows reveal that he was an apt composer and lyricist. One tick, tick...BOOM! song called "Sunday" is an homage to Stephen Sondheim
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,745x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,696x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,535x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,133x
- Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation
· 2015 · cited 27,623x
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Quotes
- “One of these days I'll find a way / I'll rise above the throng / They'll be amazed at what they see / One of these days someone will say / I knew it all along / One of these days, that's what will be”
- “There is no god, or love, just time / Saying "Do what you will. Nothing's real today" / We are fleeting numbers, and images / Like the liquid crystal digital readout / Floating on the sea of grey.”
- “Come to your senses, defenses are not the way to go / And you know, or at least you knew / Everything's strange, you've changed and I don't know what to do / To get through”
- “In one week I'll be thirty. Three-zero. Older than my Dad was when I was born. Older than Napoleon was when he ... did something that was probably extremely impressive at the time – I'm not a historian. I'm a composer. Sorry, a "promising young composer." I should have kids of my own by now, a career, but instead I've been "promising" for so long I'm afraid I'm starting to break the fucking promise.”
- “6 AM. The sky glows. Somewhere a bird chirps. I want to shoot it.”
- “Break of day, the dawn is here / Johnny's up and pacing / Compromise or persevere? / His mind is racing / Johnny has no guide / Johnny wants to hide / Can he make his mark, if he gives up his spark? / Johnny can't decide”
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Key facts
- Born
- Jonathan David Larson , ( 1960-02-04 ) February 4, 1960, Mount Vernon, New York , U.S.
- Died
- January 25, 1996 (1996-01-25) (aged 35), New York City , U.S.
- Occupation
- Composer lyricist playwright
- Education
- Adelphi University ( BFA )
- Years active
- 1982–1996
- Notable works
- Rent (1996) Tick, Tick... Boom! (2001) Superbia (not officially published)
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- date of death
- 1996-01-25
- date of birth
- 1960-02-04
- name in native language
- Jonathan Larson
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- Jonathan Larson
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Article
Jonathan David Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer, lyricist and playwright, most famous for writing the musicals Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom!, which explored the social issues of multiculturalism, substance use disorder, and homophobia.
Larson had worked on both musicals throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s. After several years of workshopping, Rent began an off-Broadway run in early 1996, though Larson died from an aortic dissection the day before its first preview performance. The show went on to enjoy critical and commercial success, and transferred to Broadway that April, becoming one of the longest-running Broadway productions. Larson posthumously received three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Rent was also adapted into a 2005 film. Tick, Tick... Boom! received an off-Broadway production in 2001, and was also adapted into a 2021 film.