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Stephen Sondheim died last week at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 91.\n\nFor six decades, Mr. Sondheim, a composer-lyricist whose works include \u201cSweeney Todd\u201d and \u201cInto the Woods,\u201d transformed musical theater into an art form as rich, complex and contradictory as life itself.\n\n\u201cFor me, the loss that we see pouring out of Twitter right now and everywhere you look as people write about their memories of Sondheim is for that person who says yes, devoting yourself to writing or to dancing or to singing or to composing \u2014 or whatever it is \u2014 is a worthwhile life,\u201d Jesse Green, The Times\u2019s chief theater critic, said in today\u2019s episode. \u201cAnd there really is no one who says that as strongly in his life and in his work as Sondheim does.\u201d\n\nToday, we chart Mr. Sondheim\u2019s career, influence and legacy.