Alan Menken
Sound
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
Sound38
movieSpellbound
2024
Original Music Composer
movieThe Little Mermaid
2023
Original Music Composer, Songs
movieDisenchanted
2022
Songs, Original Music Composer
movieThe Little Mermaid Live!
2019
Original Music Composer
movieAladdin
2019
Songs, Original Music Composer
movieHoward
2018
Original Music Composer
movieBeauty and the Beast
2017
Original Music Composer, Songs
movieGod Bless You, Mr Rosewater
2016
Music, Songs
movieSausage Party
2016
Original Music Composer
tvGalavant
2015
Music
movieMirror Mirror
2012
Original Music Composer
movieTangled
2010
Original Music Composer, Songs
movieEnchanted
2007
Songs, Original Music Composer
movieThe Shaggy Dog
2006
Original Music Composer
movieNoel
2004
Original Music Composer
movieHome on the Range
2004
Original Music Composer, Songs
movieHercules
1997
Original Music Composer, Songs
movieBeauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
1996
Original Music Composer
movieThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996
Songs, Original Music Composer
movieAladdin on Ice
1995
Original Music Composer
moviePocahontas
1995
Original Music Composer, Songs
movieLife with Mikey
1993
Original Music Composer
movieAladdin
1992
Original Music Composer, Songs
movieNewsies
1992
Songs
movieBeauty and the Beast
1991
Songs, Original Music Composer
movieThe Little Mermaid
1989
Original Music Composer, Songs
movieLittle Shop of Horrors
1986
Original Music Composer, Songs
movieHunchback
Music
Acting16
movieThe Disney Family Singalong
2020
Self - Performer
movieHoward
2018
Self / Various Character Scratch Singing
movieDisney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
2016
Himself - Special Guest
movieWaking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Nominee
Writing5
Production2
movieAria for a Cow
2015
Executive Producer
tvGalavant
2015
Executive Producer
Crew1
movieSnapshots: A Musical Scrapbook
2021
Additional Music