Franz Reizenstein was a German-born British composer and concert-pianist (1911-1968).

Although he grew up in Germany, born in Nuremberg and studying under Paul Hindemith at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik, he emigrated to England in 1934 to flee the rising Nazism. For this reason he retains a noble reputation among Jews to this day. Once in England, he furthered his studies under Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, and then became a professor at the Royal Northern College of Music (then the Royal Academy of Music) in Manchester. Later he was also Visiting Professor of Composition at Boston University.

He died relatively young, but left behind him a prodigious output and an outstanding reputation. He composed several chamber and piano works, as well as a number of concertos. He is also noted for his lavish orchestral score to Hammer's 1959 horror film The Mummy.

External links

• Franz Reizenstein biography

Film score composers | British composers | Jewish composers and songwriters | Musicians who left Nazi Germany | Jewish classical musicians