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Franz Waxman

1906 - 1967

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Franz Waxman (né Wachsmann; December 24, 1906 – February 24, 1967) was a German-born composer and conductor of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. His film scores include Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, Sunset Boulevard, A Place in the Sun, Stalag 17, Rear Window, Peyton Place, The Nun's Story, and Taras Bulba. He received twelve Academy Award nominations, and won two Oscars in consecutive years (for Sunset Boulevard and A Place in the Sun). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Waxman has received more than 333,502 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Franz Waxman is the 588th most popular composer (up from 635th in 2019), the 481st most popular biography from Poland (up from 503rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Waxman ranks 588 out of 1,216Before him are Alexandre Desplat, Orlando Gibbons, Diego Ortiz, Luis de Milán, Carl Zeller, and Johann Strauss III. After him are Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Jean-François Le Sueur, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, George Onslow, Stevan Mokranjac, and Xavier Cugat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Franz Waxman ranks 126Before him are Mary Astor, Princess Anne of Orléans, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Anton Karas, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, and Vitaly Abalakov. After him are Tuvia Bielski, Jacques Pills, Yasuo Haruyama, Lilian Harvey, Enrico Mattei, and T. H. White. Among people deceased in 1967, Franz Waxman ranks 97Before him are Ivan Isakov, Alphonse Juin, Luis Somoza Debayle, Henry Morgenthau Jr., João Guimarães Rosa, and Mir Osman Ali Khan. After him are Pierre Jeanneret, Juliusz Rómmel, Oskar Fischinger, George Lincoln Rockwell, Joseph Cardijn, and Gregory Goodwin Pincus.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Franz Waxman ranks 481 out of 1,454Before him are Gustav Flatow (1875), Richard Courant (1888), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266), Gerda Steinhoff (1922), and Hugo Haase (1863). After him are Sholem Asch (1880), Karl Gützlaff (1803), Krakus (null), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), Marek Grechuta (1945), and Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836).

Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Franz Waxman ranks 17Before him are Józef Elsner (1769), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), and Johann Adam Hiller (1728). After him are Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Josef Tal (1910), Karol Lipiński (1790), and Johann Schobert (1720).