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Franz Waxman (December 24, 1906 – February 24, 1967) was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films. Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 303 - Galerius, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ German Americans ( German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of Ethnic German ancestry A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Carmen Fantasie ( 1946) is a virtuoso showpiece for violin and orchestra The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string brass woodwind sections and possibly a percussion section as well Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875 was a French Composer and Pianist of the Romantic era Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto Carmen is a French Opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The Libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based

Life

Waxman was born Franz Wachsmann in Königshütte (Chorzów) in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia (now in Poland). Chorzów Subcarpathian Voivodeship Chorzów (Königshütte) is a city in Silesia southern Poland with around 114680 (2006 inhabitants and an area of 33 The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from 1871 to 1918 when it was a semi- Constitutional monarchy: beginning with the Unification The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918 and from 1871 was the leading state of the German Empire, comprising The Province of Silesia (Provinz Schlesien Prowincja Śląsk was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1815 to 1919 the territory had been conquered from Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland At the age of three Waxman suffered a serious eye injury involving boiling water tipped from a stove, which permanently impaired his vision.

Waxman orchestrated Frederick Hollander's score for the 1930 film Blue Angel (1930) and wrote original scores for several German films in the early 1930s. Friedrich Hollaender ( October 18 1896 - January 18 1976) was a German composer born in London The Blue Angel ( Der blaue Engel) is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, based on Heinrich Mann 's novel Professor With the Nazis in power from 1933, he worked briefly in France, composing the music for Fritz Lang's French version of Liliom, but arrived in the United States by 1935. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang ( December 5, 1890 &ndash August 2, 1976) was an Austrian German - American Liliom is a 1909 play by Ferenc Molnár. it was very famous in its own right during the early to mid-twentieth century but is best known today as the basis for the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He was commissioned to write the score for Bride of Frankenstein, his first American film, by director James Whale who had admired his score for Liliom. Bride of Frankenstein (advertised as The Bride of Frankenstein) is a science fiction / Horror film. James Whale ( July 22, 1889 – May 29, 1957) was a British born Film director, best known for his work in the During his career, Waxman received 12 Academy Award nominations, winning in consecutive years for Sunset Boulevard and A Place in the Sun. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American Film noir classic Directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, it was named A Place in the Sun is a 1951 film which tells the story of a working class young man who is entangled with two women one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory

In addition to his film scores, Waxman composed concert works and, in 1947, founded the Los Angeles International Music Festival. A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film A concert is a live Performance, usually of Music, before an Audience. Waxman headed this festival for twenty years. During the twenty years of his tenure, the festival served as the venue for world and American premieres of 80 major works by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, William Walton, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dmitri Shostakovich and Arnold Schönberg. Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job and specifically to a senior Academic 's Contractual right not to have their position terminated Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский) ( &ndash 6 April 1971 was a Russian born Composer, considered by many to Sir William Turner Walton, OM ( March 29, 1902 &ndash March 8, 1983) was a British Composer and Ralph (reɪf Vaughan Williams OM (12 October 1872 &ndash 26 August 1958 was an English Composer of symphonies, Chamber music Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich ( Russian: ru Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович ( &ndash 9 August 1975 was a Russian Composer Arnold Schoenberg ( pronounced ˈʃøːnbɛrk (13 September 1874 &ndash 13 July 1951 was an Austrian and later American Composer, associated with

According to the autobiography of fellow composer Miklós Rózsa, Waxman conducted a performance of the [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky composition Greeting Prelude (based on the song Happy Birthday). A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Miklós Rózsa (ˈmikloːʃ ˈroːʒɒ or Miklos Rozsa ( April 18, 1907 - July 27, 1995) was a Hungarian -born Composer " Happy Birthday to You " also known more simply as " Happy Birthday " is a traditional song that is sung to celebrate the anniversary of a person's The performance lasted exactly sixty seconds. In this book, A Double Life, Rózsa stated that Stravinsky gave precise instructions that a performance of this piece should last exactly sixty seconds. Consequently, Stravinsky was very happy with Waxman's conducting of the work.

Waxman died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, at age 60. Cancer (medical term Malignant Neoplasm) is a class of Diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West

Selected filmography

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