William Axt

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American composer

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FieldValue
nameWilliam Axt
birth_dateApril 19, 1888
birth_placeNew York City, New York, U.S.
death_date
death_placeUkiah, California, U.S.
occupationComposer
educationDeWitt Clinton High School
National Conservatory of Music of America
alma_materUniversity of Chicago
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| name = William Axt | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = April 19, 1888 | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = Ukiah, California, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Composer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | education = DeWitt Clinton High School National Conservatory of Music of America | alma_mater = University of Chicago William Axt (April 19, 1888 – February 13, 1959) was an American composer of nearly two hundred film scores.

Life and career

Born in New York City, Axt graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx and studied at the National Conservatory of Music of America. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1922. He studied in Berlin under Xaver Scharwenka.

Axt made his American debut as a conductor on December 28, 1910.

He served as an assistant conductor for the Hammerstein Grand Opera Company and was a musical director for the Capitol Theatre in Manhattan before joining the music department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1929.

Axt retired from the film industry to raise cattle and breed horses in Laytonville, California. He died in Ukiah, California, and had at least one son (Edward).

Selected filmography

References

References

  1. (October 13, 1922). "Music Notes". The New York Times.
  2. (December 29, 1910). "Wm. Axt Conducts 'Naughty Marietta'". The New York Times.
  3. (February 14, 1959). "Film Musician William L. Axt Dies at Ukiah". The Los Angeles Times.
  4. (November 22, 1921). ""Theodora" Film at the Shubert". The Boston Globe.
  5. (2005). "Restoring "The Big Parade"". University of Minnesota Press.
  6. (February 23, 1926). ""Ben Hur" Pictured at the Colonial". The Boston Globe.
  7. "William Axt".
  8. (1987). "The Presentation of Silent Films, or, Music as Anaesthesia". University of California Press.
  9. (2011). "Dream Analysis: Korngold, Mendelssohn, and Musical Adaptations in Warner Bros.' A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)". 19th-Century Music.
  10. (2020). "Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch". Indiana University Press.
  11. (2001). "Orientalism and the Music of Asian Immigrant Communities in California, 1924-1945". American Music.
  12. (May 13, 1933). "[Untitled]". The Boston Globe.
  13. (1999). "Film and Video Programs". MoMA.
  14. (2001). ""When Hearts Beat like Native Drums:" Music and the Sexual Dimensions of the Notions of "Savage" and "Civilized" in Tarzan and His Mate, 1934". Africa Today.
  15. (March 20, 1933). "[Untitled]". The Boston Globe.
  16. (2011). "Recurring Dreams and Moving Images: The Cinematic Appropriation of Schumann's Op. 15, No. 7". 19th-Century Music.

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