Waxman, Franz

The music of these composers was often sentimental, at a time when giants such as Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Charles Ives were moving in the opposite direction. For this reason, the musical establishment found it hard to accept their work as anything more than a commercial rehash of late 19th-century models. Nevertheless, these composers did succeed in establishing the manner of writing for film that became the foundation for succeeding generations to emulate and build on. As younger...