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Composed the music for My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Brigadoon with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, a partnership that produced some of Broadway's most enduring musicals, all of which were adapted into films. Born Friedrich Löwe in Berlin, he also wrote the score for the original film musical Gigi, later staged for Broadway in its own right.