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Richard Rodgers was the most effective composer of well-known music for the theater in the 20th century. During the period of a 60-yr career, he published the song ratings for 42 musicals staged on Broadway or in the Western End, aswell as 11 film musicals and two tv musicals (not …

Composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, II (1895-1960) both had extensive professions in Broadway theatre music before they scored their initial hit as well as Oklahoma! in 1943. Rodgers, 1st teamed with Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), with whom he obtained some Broadway successes that started once the team’s music …