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Franz Waxman, 1906–1967:A Biographical Memoir by John W. Waxman. Franz Waxman led a variety of musical lives as composer, conductor, and impresario. He was born in Konigshutte, Upper Silesia, Germany, on 24 December 1906, and was the youngest of seven children. No one in the family was musical except Franz, who started piano lessons at the ...
For Franz Waxman’s Oratorio “Joshua” is big. It is big in its musical forces, big in its impact, big in its ideas and exaltation.” The Oratorio is dedicated to the memory of Alice Waxman and was first performed on May 23, 1959 with the Temple Emanu-El Choir, conducted by Samuel Adler, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, in the sanctuary of ...
Program Notes. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer Fanfare was composed by Franz Waxman and first heard before the “Main Title” of Fritz Lang’s Fury (1936); the first of seven Spencer Tracy films Waxman would score . It has introduced Metro Goldwyn Mayer films over the decades with the help of “Leo the Lion” who can also be heard in the first ...
Franz Waxman could not have known his regular lunches in 1938 with F. Scott Fitzgerald at the writer’s table of the MGM Commissary would later prove so fortuitous. Both were under contract at the studio, working on the same picture Three Comrades, and both lived for a time at the Garden of Allah, a well-known residence hotel in Hollywood.
Franz Waxman (né Wachsmann; 24 December 1906 – 24 February 1967) was a German and American composer of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. His film scores include Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, Sunset Boulevard, A Place in the Sun, Stalag 17, Rear Window, Peyton Place, The Nun's Story, and Taras Bulba.
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