I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

Biography


Early life
Hamlisch was born in Manhattan to Viennese-born Jewish parents Lilly (née Schachter) and Max Hamlisch. S. Hamlisch and Richard Rodgers are the only two people to have won this series of awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

He was one of only eleven EGOTs – those who have been awarded an Emmy Grammy Oscar and Tony. Hamlisch also won two Golden Globes. Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2 1944 – August 6 2012) was an American composer and conductor.