Waxman’s masterful composition for A Place in the Sun earned his 2nd consecutive Oscar for Best Scoring, marking a significant milestone in his career and cementing the work’s legacy as one of the...

Franz Waxman’s arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee for violin and orchestra is a thrilling virtuoso adaptation of the famous orchestral interlude from The Tale of Tsar Saltan...

Waxman's "Katsumi Love Theme," composed for the Academy Award-winning film Sayonara (1957), is a poignant musical embodiment of the film's central romance. The piece exudes a delicate blend of East...

Waxman's "Humoresque" for Violin and Orchestra is a dazzling and emotionally rich piece that exemplifies the virtuosity and expressive potential of the violin. Composed by Franz Waxman in 1947, this...

Sunset Boulevard was nominated for eleven Oscars, winning 3 of them, for Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Waxman's score for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. In 2005, Waxman’s...

In the words of the composer, The Sinfonietta was written on board the S.S. Christoforo Coloumbo en route from New York to Europe. I was going to Europe for a conducting tour which included an...

 Carmen Fantasie is a virtuoso showpiece for violin and orchestra. The piece is part of Franz Waxman's score to the 1946 movie Humoresque for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best...