The Golden Age was defined by writing teams that would go on to influence generations of artists to come, the most popular being Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Their work not only triggered the movement, but dominated Broadway at the time.Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe were also major contributors, as well as luminaries like Leonard Bernstein, Frank Loesser, Meredith Willson, Jerry Herman, Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and even a young Stephen Sondheim. Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, whose work was already well known in the decades prior, also found success in this period.