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Franz Wachsmann var kendt under kunstnernavnet Franz Waxman og blev født d. 24. dec 1906. Død d. 24. feb 1967, 60 år gammel.
Recorded on “Franz Waxman: Legends of Hollywood, Vol 2.” Richard Mills conducts the Queensland Symphony Orchesra. (Varese Sarabande). ♦. Piano Sextet edition recorded by The St. Clair Trio on “Old Acquaintances” (Koch Inertnational Classics) 3:44. ♦. Guitar recorded by Greg Nestor for “You Must Remember This” CD (Cambria)
Franz Waxman began his musical career as the pianist, in the Weintraub Syncopaters: a Berlin jazz band of the late 1920s and early 1930s. He wrote arrangements for the band and was soon composing and orchestrating musicals at the UFA studios: the MGM of Germany.
One of the most haunting scores of all time, master film composer Franz Waxman wrote this chilling masterpiece for Alfred Hitchcock's only Best Picture Oscar...
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Franz Waxman was a German and American composer of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. His 150 film scores include Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, Sunset Boulevard, A Place in the Sun, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Philadelphia Story, Rear Window, Crime in the Streets, The Spirit of St. Louis, Peyton Place, Sayonara, The Nun's Story, and Taras Bulba.
Congratulations to the violinists who performed Carmen Fantasie by Franz Waxman at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, June 2019: Milan Al-Ashhab (Czech Republic, 6th Prize), Lara Boschkor (Germany), Mone Hattori (Japan), Ravil Isllyamov (Russia), Aylen Pritchin (Russia, 4th Prize), Leonid Zheleznyi (Russia).
Franz Waxman’s Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra is a concerto treatment of the major themes, reworked by the composer, from the David O. Selznick production of The Paradine Case, the third of four collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock.
