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Franz Waxman conducts. (c) John W. Waxman Photo Collection. All rights reserved. Used with permission.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

By Elyse Eisenberg<\/p>\n

How is the star film composer of Hollywood\u2019s Golden Years virtually unknown to moviegoers today? The name Franz Waxman doesn\u2019t usually ring a bell, but the movies he worked on\u2014\u201cPhiladelphia Story\u201d, \u201cRebecca\u201d, more\u2026are classics. Read more about this composer\u2019s life and work:<\/p>\n

German-born film composer Franz Waxman<\/a> composed the scores for hundreds of films<\/a>, including Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s \u201cRebecca<\/a>\u201d (1940) and \u201cRear Window<\/a>\u201d (1954), and the iconic \u201cSunset Boulevard<\/a>\u201d (1950).<\/p>\n

If you ask Franz Waxman\u2019s son, John Waxman, to discuss his own life\u2019s work\u2013a library of music for motion pictures, one of the largest in the world\u2013 he immediately starts reminiscing about his father and the \u201cHollywood Sound\u201d. There are very few people who remember this musical heritage\u2013there are very few left who care. It\u2019s a great legacy lost forever, Waxman said, who added that while people might recognize the music from his father\u2019s films, most people do not know his father\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong film historians and people who are serious about film, Franz Waxman is one of the best-known film composers. Maybe what John Waxman is saying is that he is not as famous as he should have been,\u201d said Jeanine Basinger, a film professor at Wesleyan University for almost 40 years, who has taught hundreds of students in her film program.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood films from Waxman\u2019s time did not feature cinematographers or composers, and often even the directors were invisible, according to Basinger, because at the time it was all about the stars. All of that began to change in the 1960s when movies evolved into an art form, and people began looking at the art behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

So why isn\u2019t Franz Waxman known today? For Basinger the answer is clear: because of the era in which he worked, when composers received little credit. Basinger pointed out that unusually, Waxman was able to maintain his own voice and creativity while serving the artistic needs of the studio.<\/p>\n

John Waxman recounts:<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes my father got assigned to films that were real stinkers, and the producers thought the music could save it. The legendary composer, Max Steiner, used to say, \u2018You can dress up a corpse but you can\u2019t bring it back to life. My father also had to pay the rent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Sound of Hollywood\u2019s Golden Age<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Waxman, who makes film music available to orchestras all over the world, says that the popularity of film music has grown tremendously since 1980. \u201cWhen I first started off, some publishers laughed at me. They didn\u2019t think it was serious music, just filler. But, it\u2019s really much more than that.\u201d Waxman explains: \u201cThe best example is in Hitchcock\u2019s \u201cPsycho\u201d\u2013all of the tension and anxiety is conveyed through the music; if you watch the film without the music, the scenes go on forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Basinger says: \u201cFor the great composers, like Franz Waxman, the music is worthwhile on its own, but if the music has been designed with pauses and crescendos, and you leave that out of the film, then you are leaving out a design element.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father would say good music is good music, no matter what the genre or context,\u201d Waxman said. \u201cMy father could work in every genre, including horror films (\u201dBride of Frankenstein<\/a>\u201d [1935]), comedies (\u201dPhiladelphia Story<\/a>\u201d [1940]), war pictures (\u201dObjective, Burma!<\/a>\u201d [1945]), historical dramas, women\u2019s pictures and Westerns. \u201cHe was a chameleon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waxman recounts:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father would work on a Kirk Douglas western in the morning, would go to the studio for lunch, work until dinner on the \u201cSpirit of St. Louis<\/a>\u201d (1957), after dinner he would take a swim, and work on \u201cMiracle In The Rain<\/a>\u201d (1956) in the evening. He couldn\u2019t wait for inspiration to strike, he had to turn out so many scores in such a short time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cOne of the great things about Franz Waxman was that he could soar with the romanticism and emotional fullness, as in the Hollywood melodrama \u2018Rebecca\u2019, where he infused the main character who is remembered and unseen with so much power and emotional appeal,\u201d Basinger said.<\/p>\n

Franz Waxman is one of a number of film composers whose inventive work helped define the Golden Age in Hollywood. A new PBS documentary \u201cCinema\u2019s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood\u201d takes an in-depth look at the impact of Franz Waxman and many other German and Eastern European exiles on Hollywood\u2019s film industry.<\/p>\n

During the \u201cGolden Age\u201d of cinema there were many prolific film composers. They include Max Steiner, Hans Eisler, Miklos Rosza<\/a>, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Genesis for the PBS Documentary Cinema\u2019s Exiles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea started off with my father, but I knew that there were many other German refugees from the film industry who also changed the motion picture business,\u201d said John Waxman, who pitched the idea to Karen Thomas, the producer for the documentary.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things my dad does well is carry on the importance of film music, and my family\u2019s legacy,\u201d said Franz Waxman\u2019s granddaughter Alyce Waxman. \u201cIt is such a beautiful story of how these composers defined American cinema, how they went from something so bleak to something so great. So, many people associate film with America, when it was actually outsiders who created film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Basinger explains:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u201cGolden Age in Hollywood\u2019 was not born in Hollywood\u2013 it came from composers in Europe who were trained in the classical music traditions of Beethoven and Wagner, who used large orchestras and lushly romantic scores. The reason why Hollywood cinema became so great was because it absorbed huge talent from Europe, all of the greats fleeing persecution were absorbed in Hollywood cinema.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ironically, their experiences in Nazi Germany gave the work depth. \u201cThere\u2019s a great emotional sensitivity in their music, that they have suffered, and lived full lives. They were not just born in California. There is a power and sophistication that comes from their survival and the great European tradition that elevates their music,\u201d Basinger said.<\/p>\n

Waxman\u2019s Career High Points<\/strong><\/p>\n

Franz Waxman began his musical career playing at the Tingle Tangle club in Berlin, and he eventually got a break writing songs for Frederick Hollander, who gave Waxman his first important movie assignment: orchestrating and conducting a score for Josef von Sternberg\u2019s classic Marlene Dietrich vehicle, \u201cThe Blue Angel.\u201d Then, one evening, after Hitler had come to power, Waxman was walking home from the studio when he was beaten up by a group of Hitler Youth. He got back up, went back to his apartment and left that night with his girlfriend. They left everything and went to Paris. In Paris, he ended up in the Hotel Ansonia, where other film professionals from Germany passed through. Many refugees like Waxman who emigrated to the U.S. were forced to leave family behind, but ended up finding work in close-knit Jewish communities.<\/p>\n

Waxman states:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know the famous story in Hollywood\u2013 it\u2019s 25 percent talent and 75 percent connections. Once in the U.S., my father was invited along with my mother to the home of writer Salka Viertel. There, he met director James Whale, who said he had a picture he wanted my father to score for Universal Pictures. It was \u201cThe Bride of Frankenstein\u201d. It led to a two-year contract with Universal as head of the music department and it was the beginning of steady employment for the next 30 years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Waxman won the Academy Award in 1950 for Billy Wilder\u2019s \u201cSunset Boulevard\u201d and in 1951 for George Stevens\u2019 \u201cA Place in the Sun.\u201d He was the only composer to have won the award for Best Score two years in a row, according to Waxman.<\/p>\n

Still, John Waxman reflects on the \u201cgolden age\u201d as a challenging time for his father and the \u00e9migr\u00e9 composers: \u201cIt was tough in those days because composers were not appreciated in the same way they are today. People look back at the \u2018golden age\u2019, and think it must have been really great. It wasn\u2019t all that great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waxman\u2019s Final Masterpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy father\u2019s brother and part of his family were exterminated in Auschwitz. My father didn\u2019t talk about it. It was too painful. All of these \u00e9migr\u00e9s lived with these stories, every one of them had stories, but they did not look back. They were interested in the future,\u201d Waxman said.<\/p>\n

While Franz Waxman focused most of his career on composing scores for Hollywood films, his last great work was very much about the Holocaust\u2013but not for film\u2013it was a concert.<\/p>\n

Waxman recounts:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father received a commission from the Cincinnati May Festival for a composition for a children\u2019s chorus, and he was looking for a work that would fit their requirements. My aunt was a German refugee who worked in New York finding European books for McGraw-Hill that were appropriate for translation and publication in the U.S. One morning she called my father and asked him to order her a roast beef sandwich with lettuce, tomato and Russian dressing for lunch, because she had a package from Prague\u2013a book which she was sure would be a subject that he could compose to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was the publication \u201cI Never Saw Another Butterfly\u201d, of poems written by children interned at the Terezin ghetto near Prague. \u201cThe Nazis tried to portray the Terezin ghetto as a \u2018model\u2019 camp to the Red Cross, when actually very few children there survived,\u201d Waxman said. Franz Waxman wrote the work \u201cThe Song of Terezin\u201d<\/a>\u2013a series of eight songs each based on a poem from the book\u2013over a six-week period. \u201cHe composed it almost like Mozart writing the requiem\u2013he knew he was sick and had to finish it fast. Five months before he died, Waxman was able to make a trip to Prague.<\/p>\n

Franz Waxman passed away in 1967, at the age of 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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