Rear Window

Franz Waxman was a German-American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Bizet... opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films. Waxman was born Franz Wachsmann in Königshütte in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia . At the age of three Waxman suffered a serious eye injury involving boiling water tipped from a stove, which permanently impaired his vision. Waxman orchestrated Friedrich Hollaender's score for the 1930 film The Blue Angel and then wrote original scores for several German films. With the Nazis in power from 1933, he worked briefly in France, composing the music for Fritz Lang's French version of Liliom, but arrived in the United States by 1935. He was commissioned to write the score for Bride of Frankenstein, his first American film, by director James Whale, who had admired his score for Liliom. Franz Waxman worked with the director Alfred Hitchcock in four films, including Rebecca , Suspicion , The Paradine Case , and Rear Window .
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international affairs and is widely deemed the cultural capital of the world. The city is also referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part. Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated in 1898: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. With a 2010 United States Census population of 8,175,133 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles , New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages could be spoken in New York, making it one of most linguistically diverse city in the World.
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