Waxman, Franz (Family Name: Wachsmann)

Waxman entered the Dresden Music Academy in 1923 but soon transferred to the Berlin Conservatory. With the rise of the Nazis, he moved to Paris in 1933, where he composed his first film score for Fritz Lang’s Liliom. In the following year he emigrated to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, where he later received lessons from Arnold Schoenberg. From 1935 to 1963 he composed the astonishing number of 147 film scores for Universal, M.G.M., and Warner...