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Franz Waxman
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Waxman was responsible for all or part of 144 scores.
He is the father of
John W. Waxman
.
Pictured on one of six 33¢ USA commemorative postage stamps in the Legends of American Music series, honoring Hollywood Composers, issued 21 September 1999. Issued in panes of 20 stamps. Others honored in the set were
Max Steiner
,
Dimitri Tiomkin
,
Bernard Herrmann
,
Alfred Newman
, and
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
.
Waxman worked on four films for Billy Wilder and four for Alfred Hitchcock. Wilder claimed that Waxman and Miklos Rozsa were his favorite film composers.
Beginning with Fritz Lang's "Fury" (1936) MGM pictures opened to the sound of Waxman's fanfare.
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