Watch Waxman’s acceptance speech for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for “Sunset Blvd.” at the 1951 Academy Awards. Watch him accept the award in 1952 for “A Place in the Sun.”
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The Music of Sunset Boulevard with German Subtitles
Click here to watch Franz Waxman: The Music of Sunset Boulevard with German Subtitles.
1931 Footage of Waxman at Piano
“Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht” (The Man in Search of His Murderer) is a 1931 UFA comedy film with screenplay by Billy Wilder and directed by Robert Siodmak. Click here to watch Waxman sing and play piano with the Weintraub Syncopators.
Miklos Rozsa Society
Miklos Rozsa Society has posted a 1950 interview with Franz Waxman, a transcription of one of 15 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programs on prominent Hollywood composes, reprinted in Musica Pro Sana. Click here for the complete transcript.
Franz Waxman Conducts
The Naxos Series “Waxman Conducts” features the Los Angeles Festival Orchestra performances at the Los Angeles Music Festival (1947-1966) which included 70 World, American and West Coast premieres by such composers as Prokofiev, Mahler, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Vaughn Williams and Walton. Click here for more info.
Bride of Frankenstein
She’s Alive!!! James Whales’ 1935 classic horror film – starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester — comes to life in a full evening presentation with Franz Waxman’s fantastic score played live. Represented by IMG artists.
Cossacks at Proms
John Wilson’s Hollywood Rhapsody on BBC 4
At the Royal Albert Hall in London England on August 26, 2013, John Wilson and his orchestra celebrated the music of Hollywood. Ride of the Cossacks and A Place in the Sun are among the film scores featured. With soloists Venera Gimadieva, Matthew Ford and Jane Monheit.
The Ride of the Cossacks – Four Hands
Watch Per Tengstrand & Shan-shan Sun (Duo Tengstrand-Sun) live at Helsingborg Piano Festival, Sweden 2007-08-05.
USPS Postage Stamp
On September 19, 1999, at the Hollywood Bowl, the United States Postal Service released Legends of American Music – Hollywood Composers stamps honoring: Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin and Franz Waxman.
Joshua Recording
Maximilian Schell stars as narrator in world-premiere recording of Franz Waxman’s last composition. Shown above, behind the scenes recording JOSHUA in the Rudolfnum, Prague, Czech Republic, July 31, 2004. Additional information available on Deutsche Grammophon.