Franz Reizenstein
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Franz Reizenstein ((1911-October 15, 1968) was a German-born British composer and concert-pianist.
He grew up in Nuremberg and studied under Paul Hindemith at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik. He emigrated to England in 1934 to escape the Nazis. Once in England, he furthered his studies under Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, eventually becoming a professor at the Royal Northern College of Music (then the Royal Academy of Music) in Manchester. He later became Visiting Professor of Composition at Boston University.
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 Studios' 1959 horror film The Mummy.
