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	BMOP :: Franz Waxman
		Franz Waxman led a variety of musical lives as composer, conductor, and impresario.
		Waxman's first original Hollywood score was James Whale's The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which led to a two-year contract with Universal as head of the music department.
		Franz Waxman received many honors during his lifetime, including the Cross of Merit from the Federal Republic of West Germany, honorary memberships in the Mahler Society and the International Society of Arts and Letters, and an honorary doctorate of letters and humanities from Columbia College.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=152 (863 words)

	American Composers Orchestra - David Raksin Remembers His Colleagues
		The sequence in which the female monster is brought to life is wonderfully ghoulish, and the music composed by Franz Waxman propels this episode to its harrowing climax with the same deadpan seriousness as James Whale's visuals.
		Franz Waxman, the young man who composed this coroner's version of the "Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde, was born in Königshütte, Germany (now Chorzow, Poland) in 1906.
		Franz worked for several years as a bank teller and used his salary to pay for lessons in piano, harmony and composition.
	www.americancomposers.org /raksin_waxman.htm (806 words)

	Franz Waxman - Legends of Hollywood Vol.4
		In 1933 Franz Waxman, a Jew, was beaten by Nazi thugs on a street of his homeland Germany.
		It seems Waxman could relate to the ageless tale of family torn asunder, old and new loyalties, and messianic hope in the aftermath of senseless sacrifice.
		Franz Waxman was never to escape the long shadow of the mothers of Israel.
	www.audiophilia.com /software/da6.htm (837 words)

	MUSICMATCH Guide: Franz Waxman
		Franz Waxman (Wachsmann) was one of the most prolific and respected twentieth century composers of film music.
		Franz Waxman was born in Konigshutte, Germany (now Chorzow, Poland), the last of six children.
		Waxman's now-popular Carmen Fantasie (1947), written for Humoresque (with Isaac Stern brilliantly captured on the soundtrack), was recorded for RCA by Jascha Heifetz.
	www.mmguide.musicmatch.com /artist/artist.cgi?ARTISTID=1089197&TMPL=LONG (784 words)

	Franz Waxman: Humoresque
		This 1947 soap opera is one of the dizziest peaks of '40s melodrama and for Waxman it was an atypical assignment.
		The show stoppers, and presumably the real reason for this release, are the Waxman adaptations of Bizet's Carmen and the now-mythic grande (dame) finale, Joan Crawford's walk into the ocean, accompanied by the Wagner/Waxman Liebestod, adapted for violin, piano and full orchestra.
		Waxman's adaptation of the Bizet has become something of a high water mark (no pun intended) for the virtuoso.
	www.audiophilia.com /software/da21.htm (538 words)

	Franz WAXMAN Goyana etc.: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews June 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Franz Waxman composed scores for 144 films, was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won twice in 1950 (Sunset Boulevard) and 1951 (A Place in the Sun).
		'Country Dance', is Waxman's response to the painting, reproduced on the cover of the CD booklet, of couples dancing under a tree to the accompaniment of village musicians.
		Waxman invited Heifetz to play on the soundtrack and the virtuoso played this work many times but never recorded it.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/june99/waxman.htm (841 words)

	SoundtrackCollector: Composer Details: Franz Waxman
		A proponent of the heavily orchestrated, romantic type of score, Waxman won Academy Awards for Sunset Blvd (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951), and was nominated for The Young in Heart (1938), Rebecca (1940), Dr.
		Waxman, who studied at the Dresden Music Academy and the Berlin Music Conservatory, started composing film music for Germany's UFA studio in 1930; anti-Semitic pressures at the dawn of the Nazi era drove him out of the country and, eventually, to America.
		Waxman moved to MGM in 1936 and stayed there for seven years, contributing scores to Captains Courageous (1937), A Christmas Carol (1938), On Borrowed Time (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Honky Tonk (1941), and Woman of the Year (1942), among many others.
	www.soundtrackcollector.com /catalog/composerdetail.php?composerid=13 (327 words)

	Cimarron: Music composed by Franz Waxman: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews November 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This was Franz Waxman's final score at M-G-M and it has to be said that, thematically, it is not one of his best although, undeniably, there is all his usual refined craftsmanship in the dramatic and atmospheric writing.
		Of course Waxman grasps every opportunity to colour and point up the Cimarron characters and events and his music must be regarded as one of the few saving graces of this film.
		Waxman had first hand experience of racial intolerance and he reserves some quite mean and vicious music, rasping brass, strident, crushing rhythms and heavy percussion for the 'Hanging Scene' (you can hear those jack-boots!).
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2004/Nov04/cimarron.html (876 words)

	Franz Waxman - film composer
		They were all born and received their musical education far removed from the influence of Hollywood, in the case of Waxman this was in Germany, and all three started their Hollywood careers in the 1930s between them sowing up many of the big films produced over the next two decades.
		Waxman received many oscar nominations over the course of his career in film music, winning the award twice for "Sunset Boulevard" and "A Place in the Sun".
		Some of Franz Waxman's themes can be found on compilation CDs, and there is a Franz Waxman web-site at www.FranzWaxman.com.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Franz-Waxman.htm (369 words)

	Screen Archives
		Franz Waxman's stirring title song for "Cimarron," which figures prominently through the course of his score, features lyrics by Paul Francis Webster and is sung by the Roger Wagner Chorale.
		Waxman also employs a European folk song (which Sabra sings to Yancey early in the film) as a love theme for the two principals, and supplies colorful themes for various supporting characters.
		Another highlight is Waxman's moving setting of the spiritual "O Redeemed," a cue omitted from the film entirely.
	www.screenarchives.com /title_detail.cfm?ID=4047 (382 words)

	Franz Waxman
		Franz Waxman (born Franz Wachsmann) was the youngest child in a family of six children.
		Waxman's first original Hollywood score was The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
		Waxman is best known for his work during the 1950s and 1960s.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/appendix/composers/W/FranzWaxman.html (538 words)

	Prince Valiant - Music from the Movies
		Add to all this Waxman’s equally splendid score and you have a film which (on DVD) is still great fun today.
		Waxman’s score is based on a series of stirringly lyrical motifs for the various characters, and I see the film as one of the (many) influences, both cinematic and musical, on the later Star Wars.
		Waxman created some of the most haunting melodies in classic film music, and an interesting sidebar to the Valiant score is that his Princess Aleta theme was so lyrical that lyrics were added and it was published as a song, “I Do,” though it is not sung in the film.
	www.musicfromthemovies.com /review.asp?ID=1323 (557 words)

	Film Music Classics - Waxman: Objective Burma \| ArkivMusic
		Now on Naxos, here is Waxman's splendid music for Raoul Walsh's 1945 World War II epic Objective Burma, a film that starred Erroll Flynn.
		Waxman's jaunty main title theme emerges time and again in various shapes and emotional guises, amid more foreboding sequences like "At Night", with its serpentine bass clarinet, spooky muted trombones, and eerie string harmonics.
		Notable too is Waxman's haunting use of eight solo cellos during the cue "Jacob's Death".
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=94480 (201 words)

	Franz Waxman
		Franz Waxman was among Hollywood's most talented composers of musical scores, best known for his suspenseful scores of many Hitchcock films.
		He was born Franz Wachsmann in 1906 in what is now Chrozow, Poland, and began playing piano as a child.
		After a brief stint in the UFA, Waxman began scoring German films until 1934 when he was beaten up in Berlin by an anti-Semitic street gang.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P116115 (160 words)

	Franz Waxman: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Franz Waxman (December 24, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Waxman died of cancer at age 60 in Los Angeles, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Marc shaiman (born october 22, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/franz_waxman.htm (937 words)

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		To follow the Varèse Sarabande releases of Franz Waxman’s The Virgin Queen and Beloved Infidel, we now induct the composer’s lavish 1960 score for The Story of Ruth into our CD Club Hall of Fame.
		Waxman’s music is measured and dramatic, exotic, beautiful and very emotional.
		Waxman’s score, as so many great ones have, untimely fell victim to its own film’s lack of success and has been largely lost to the sands of time.
	www.tarantula-records.com /bilder/p23.htm (227 words)

	Peyton Place Soundtrack Reviews @ Movie Music . com
		Varese Sarabande presents a major event in film score history - Peyton Place (1957) composed by Franz Waxman, is a triumph of an exceptional symphonic composition.
		Waxman's first original Hollywood score was - Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
		Franz Waxman knew how to make his music work for a film, and this album is the example and achievement that gives dimension to story-telling.
	www.moviemusic.com /comments.asp?mm=peytonplace (172 words)

	Virgin Queen, The - Music from the Movies
		Varese Sarabande's recently revived CD club does both Golden Age fans and Franz Waxman proud with this limited edition of the original soundtrack for 1955's The Virgin Queen.
		Waxman uses the tune in its original martial guise fairly sparingly.
		One of Waxman's many strengths is his flair for writing variations.
	www.musicfromthemovies.com /review.asp?ID=933 (491 words)

	Rebecca - Franz Waxman
		Waxman wrote music for four earlier films and this is perhaps the best of the lot, although like Herrmann, Waxman didn't receive an Oscar for his work, losing out to Pinocchio in this instance, although he did go on to win two Oscars almost a decade later.
		I suspect that dyed in the wool golden age fans would disagree, but Waxman's music strikes me as easier to re-record than that of Herrmann or Newman, the latter in particularly given his status as one of the greatest conductors ever to work in Hollywood.
		Waxman's musical language isn't so obvious and seems more open to interpretation, although McNeely's direction is as doubtlessly faithful to the intentions of the original performance as is possible.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/rebecca.htm (627 words)

	5/31/99: Goyanna CD Review
		Of all the composers whose careers spanned the Golden and Silver Ages of Hollywood, Franz Waxman was probably the most flexible in altering his style to the demands of differing assignments (consider the vastly different sounds of The Bride of Frankenstein, The Philadelphia Story, Prince Valiant and Sunset Boulevard, just to cite several at random).
		The "Sinfonietta" is easily my favorite of the Waxman concert pieces I've heard, but the "Introduction and Scherzo for Cello and Orchestra" is also quite wonderful - an epic and dramatic piece, despite its brief playing time.
		For a composer who, in his movie work, seemed to be a fount of melodies, it is surprising that so much of Waxman's concert work is adaptations of pieces by classical composers, such as the "'Carmen' Fantasie." Even two movements of the "Goyanna" are based on existing works.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/1999/31_May---Goyanna_CD_Review.asp (503 words)

	Classical Net Review - Waxman/Korngold - Film Scores
		Skeffington's music is patient, centered, caring, and yet a little formal, and Waxman subtly reminds listeners that Job is a Jew; after all, this is an important plot device.
		Fanny's music is skittish and harmonically unsettled, and Waxman turns her theme upside-down and rightside-up to show what kind of a woman she is. Later in the score, when she has lost her looks and her suitors, Waxman approaches frank atonality - a pretty rare device for a Hollywood score of that era.
		Waxman uses a novachord (an early electronic instrument) to create a chilling atmosphere for Job and Fanny's reunion.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/m/mpl25037a.html (718 words)

	Franz Waxman
		Franz Waxman was born in Germany and got his start in music playing piano in nightclubs and with the Weintraub Syncopaters, a popular jazz band of the late 1920s.
		Whale was looking for a composer who could give the film something more than the average “squeal and groan” horror score and Waxman complied with a classic horror score far different from the norm.
		Waxman took his film work seriously and, in addition to his many nominations, contributed memorable scores to The Philadelphia Story (1940), Old Acquaintance (1943), Mr.
	www.settling-the-score.com /waxman.html (434 words)

	Movie Music U.K. - Franz Waxman
		Franz Waxman (originally Wachsmann) was in Germany in 1906 to Jewish parents.
		Waxman's first real foray into the world of film music came when he arranged and conducted Hollander's score for Marlene Dietrich's debut film "Der Blau Engel" ("The Blue Angel"), for which he did not receive screen credit.
		Waxman died on 24 February 1967 at his home in Los Angeles, after a battle with cancer.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /waxman.htm (642 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Waxman: Mr Skeffington: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Franz Waxman's distinguished Hollywood career culminated in Oscars on two consecutive years for Sunset Boulevard and A Place in the Sun in 1950 and 1951 respectively, cementing his reputation as the composer of choice for Hollywood melodrama.
		As the in-depth booklet notes point out, Waxman's music here leans heavily on Richard Strauss (whom Waxman often saw conduct at the Dresden Opera House), and avoids the Shostakovich comparisons of much of his other work.
		In bringing more Waxman to light, restorer John Morgan and his team continue to remind us of the extraordinary wealth of fine music written during Hollywood's golden age.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001NTPO (448 words)

	Franz Waxman MP3 Downloads - Franz Waxman Music Downloads - Franz Waxman Music Videos
		Franz Waxman's score for Peyton Place was a key element in what was an unexpectedly classy and well-made movie, made from what was generally regarded as a trashy bestseller.
		How it holds up as freestanding music is another matter, however, as this CD of the complete score illustrates.
		Waxman's writing for the string and reed instruments takes on a Copland-like beauty and simplicity on tracks such as "Hilltop Scene," and that eloquent, lyrical seven-minute piece by itself is worth the price of the disc.
	www.mp3.com /albums/434894/summary.html (330 words)

	Franz Waxman Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Began his film career with UFA in 1930 and scored a number of German films before leaving the country in 1934.
		Waxman subsequently moved to the US, where he emerged as one of Hollywood's finest and most prolific composers of the 1940s and 50s.
		Adept at psychologically laden scores and romantic or fantastic material, Waxman contributed to several Hitchcock films, notably "Rebecca" (1940) and "Rear Window" (1954); other outstanding credits include "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), "Mr.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/191535 (121 words)

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