Los Angeles, California - Burt Bacharach, the composer of classic pop songs including I Say A Little Prayer and Walk On By, has died at the age of 94.

His publicist confirmed to the PA news agency that he died surrounded by relatives at home on Wednesday, and said Bacharach’s family requested privacy at this time.

The songwriter and pianist wrote hundreds of songs from the 1960s to the 1980s, many with his long-standing lyricist Hal David, who died in 2012 aged 91.

Bacharach wrote hits for artists including Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones, and the Carpenters.

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Dionne Warwick was another of his favorite collaborators, co-writing the 1985 song That’s What Friends Are For, which featured Elton John, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. She was originally offered the megahit What the World Needs Now Is Love, also composed by Bacharach, but it eventually became Jackie DeShannon's signature tune.

He was nominated for 21 Grammy Awards, winning six.

Bacharach was also a three-time Oscar winner, receiving two Academy awards in 1970 for his original score for Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and for Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head. In 1982, he and his then-wife, lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, won the Oscar for Best That You Can Do from the movie Arthur.

In 2008, he was proclaimed music’s "greatest living composer" as he accepted the Grammy lifetime achievement award. Four years later, then-President Barack Obama awarded him the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Missouri-born Bacharach developed a sound that incorporated jazz, soul and bossa nova, and was easily recognizable no matter which of the many performers he worked with was delivering vocals.

He is survived by his fourth wife Jane Hansen, who he married in 1993, and his three children Oliver and Raleigh from his marriage to Hansen, as well as Cristopher, whom he shared with ex-wife Sager.