Franz Waxman

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Biography

Franz Waxman was a more prolific early Hollywood composer.

  • Primary profession
  • Music_department·composer·soundtrack
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 24 December 1906
  • Place of birth
  • Chorzów
  • Death date
  • 1967-02-24
  • Death age
  • 61
  • Place of death
  • Los Angeles
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes

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He is the father of John W. Waxman.

Pictured on one of six 33 USA commemorative postage stamps in the Legends of American Music series, honoring Hollywood Composers, issued 21 September 1999. Issued in panes of 20 stamps. Others honored in the set were Max Steiner , Dimitri Tiomkin , Bernard Herrmann , Alfred Newman , and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Waxman was responsible for all or part of 144 scores.

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