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Jerry Bock
American theatre composer
1928 – 2010aged 81
Composed the music for Fiddler on the Roof (1964), sharing a Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist with Sheldon Harnick for a score that turned Sholem Aleichem's shtetl stories into a global stage phenomenon. The pair had already shared the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Fiorello!, making Bock one of a small number of composers to combine Broadway's two top honors across a single partnership.