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Home. Biography, history of the Los Angeles Music Festival, external links, and bibliography >. Composer, conductor, and impresario, Franz Waxman was best known for his prolific. career as a composer for the motion picture industry spanning 150 scores through the 1930-60’s. (At home in 1949 with his piano and collection of the complete works ...
フランツ・ワックスマン. フランツ・ワックスマン （ Franz Waxman, 1906年 12月24日 - 1967年 2月24日 ）は、 ドイツ 出身の アメリカ合衆国 の 作曲家 。. ユダヤ系。. 本名はフランツ・ヴァクスマン（ Franz Wachsmann ）。. ヤッシャ・ハイフェッツ のために作曲された ...
May 23, 2017 · Franz Waxman (1906-1967) was a German-American composer remembered mostly for his film scores. Having moved to Hollywood aged 28, Waxman’s oeuvre encompasses approximately 150 films, including Rebecca , Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , The Bride of Frankenstein and Sunset Boulevard , and he eventually received two Academy Awards for his film work.
Waxman’s tango theme for Sunset Boulevard is based on a scene in the film in which Norma Desmond makes reference to a polished floor in her mansion, where Valentino danced the tango. Waxman noted, “ [Since] this is the atmosphere in which she lives today (1950), I took this little bit of characterization as inspiration.”.
It was Franz Waxman’s music, originally written for The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Up until 1938, the American Federation of Musicians allowed the reuse of any music in the studio library for any studio film. What made Waxman’s score so adaptable for re-working was the composer’s, extraordinary for its time, use of symphonic music for ...
Franz Waxman led a variety of musical lives as composer, conductor and impresario. He was born in Konigshutte, Upper Silesia, Germany, on December 24, 1906, and was the youngest of six children. No one in the family was musical except Franz, who started piano lessons at the age of seven. His father was an industrialist, and not believing his ...
