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William Axt. Composer: The Thin Man. Composer and conductor, educated at DeWitt Clinton High School, and in private music study in Berlin. He was the assistant conductor at the Hammerstein Grand Opera Company in New York, and conducted for Emma Trentini between 1914-1918.
William Axt (April 19, 1888 – February 13, 1959) was an American composer of nearly two hundred film scores. 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.
William Axt. Dr. William Axt was born April 19, 1888 in New York, NY. He was educated at DeWitt Clinton High School, studied at the National Conservatory in New York, and had private music study in Berlin.
William Axt was an American composer and conductor. He was born in New York City, New York on April 19, 1888. He earned his Doctor of Music from the University of Chicago in 1922 and served as a conductor for the Hammerstein Grand Opera Company and Capitol Theatre.
The film was re-released in 1931 with an added musical score, by the original composers William Axt and David Mendoza, and sound effects. As the decades passed, the original two-color Technicolor segments were replaced by alternative black-and-white takes.
Ben Hur (1925) Most expensive movie of the silent era ($4,000,000)=$160,000,000 today. First shown on December 30, 1925 in New York City at the George M. Cohan Theater. Two composers were hired to write the score: David Mendoza and William Axt.
Puccini’s estate was in litigation when the film was being made, and his music was unavailable, so David Mendoza and William Axt did a substitute score that the critic George Jean Nathan liked better than Puccini’s. American film music had come a long way from its early hit-and-miss days.
