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American composer
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.[
citation needed] He earned a
Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the
University of Chicago in 1922.
[1] He studied in
Berlin under
Xaver Scharwenka.
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Axt made his American debut as a conductor on December 28, 1910.
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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.[
citation needed]
Axt retired from the film industry to raise cattle and breed horses in
Laytonville, California.[
citation needed] He died in
Ukiah, California, and had at least one son (Edward).
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Selected filmography
References
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"Music Notes". The New York Times. October 13, 1922. p. 14. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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"Wm. Axt Conducts 'Naughty Marietta'". The New York Times. December 29, 1910. p. 16. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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"Film Musician William L. Axt Dies at Ukiah". The Los Angeles Times. February 14, 1959. p. 9. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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""Theodora" Film at the Shubert". The Boston Globe. November 22, 1921. p. 7. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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^ May, Richard P. (2005).
"Restoring "The Big Parade"".
The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. 5 (2). University of Minnesota Press: 142.
doi:
10.1353/mov.2005.0033.
ISSN
1532-3978.
JSTOR
41167213.
S2CID
192076406. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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""Ben Hur" Pictured at the Colonial". The Boston Globe. February 23, 1926. p. 18. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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"William Axt". British Film Institute. Archived from
the original on December 23, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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^ Anderson, Gillian B. (1987).
"The Presentation of Silent Films, or, Music as Anaesthesia".
The Journal of Musicology. 5 (2). University of California Press: 292.
doi:
10.2307/763853.
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0277-9269.
JSTOR
763853. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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^ Platte, Nathan (2011).
"Dream Analysis: Korngold, Mendelssohn, and Musical Adaptations in Warner Bros.' A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)". 19th-Century Music. 34 (3): 229.
doi:
10.1525/ncm.2011.34.3.211.
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0148-2076.
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10.1525/ncm.2011.34.3.211. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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^ McCormick, Rick (2020). "Sex and Sophistication: Comedies and Operettas, 1923–34".
Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch. Indiana University Press. p. 167.
doi:
10.2307/j.ctv1g809c7.8.
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978-0-253-04834-9.
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j.ctv1g809c7.8.
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243120174. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
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^ Yang, Mina (2001).
"Orientalism and the Music of Asian Immigrant Communities in California, 1924-1945". American Music. 19 (4): 408–9.
doi:
10.2307/3052418.
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0734-4392.
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3052418. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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"[Untitled]". The Boston Globe. May 13, 1933. p. 10. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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"Film and Video Programs". MoMA. 2 (6): 19. 1999.
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0893-0279.
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4420375. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
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^ Henderson, Clara (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. 48 (4): 98.
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0001-9887.
JSTOR
4187456. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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"[Untitled]". The Boston Globe. March 20, 1933. p. 17. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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^ Barham, Jeremy (2011).
"Recurring Dreams and Moving Images: The Cinematic Appropriation of Schumann's Op. 15, No. 7". 19th-Century Music. 34 (3): 284.
doi:
10.1525/ncm.2011.34.3.271.
ISSN
0148-2076.
JSTOR
10.1525/ncm.2011.34.3.271. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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