“Waxman always regarded “Rebecca” as the best of his 144 Hollywood scores, a breakthrough in his career that other movie makers asked him to emulate.” Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal.

To celebrate Waxman’s 112th birthday, ASCAP reprinted excerpts from their 2006 interview with his son John Waxman, guardian of his father’s catalogue through his company, Themes & Variations and Fidelio Music Publishing Company.

Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler To Hollywood traces the experiences of the Jews who fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in Hollywood, and examines their impact on both the German and the American cinemas. John Waxman served as producer on this documentary. Click here for more info. Now available on DVD and CD!

Every month TCM airs classic Waxman films. Check here to see this month’s schedule.

Click here to watch Franz Waxman: The Music of Sunset Boulevard with German Subtitles.

“Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht” (The Man in Search of His Murderer) is a 1931 UFA comedy film with screenplay by Billy Wilder and directed by Robert Siodmak. Click here to watch Waxman sing and play piano with the Weintraub Syncopators.

Miklos Rozsa Society has posted a 1950 interview with Franz Waxman, a transcription of one of 15 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programs on prominent Hollywood composes, reprinted in Musica Pro Sana. Click here for the complete transcript.

Maximilian Schell stars as narrator in world-premiere recording of Franz Waxman’s last composition. Shown above, behind the scenes recording JOSHUA in the Rudolfnum, Prague, Czech Republic, July 31, 2004. Additional information available on Deutsche Grammophon.

Franz Waxman’s Rebecca: A Film Score Guide will be of interest to musicologists and film scholars, as well as fans of Alfred Hitchcock and Franz Waxman. David Neumeyer and Nathan Platte situate the score for this classic work within the context of the composer’s life and career.  Available on Amazon.