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Biography. Early years (1888–1907) Max Steiner's birthplace in Vienna today, Praterstraße 72. Max Steiner was born on May 10, 1888, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, as the only child in a wealthy business and theatrical family of Jewish heritage.
Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944).
Max Steiner. Composer: Casablanca. Austrian composer Max Steiner achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores.
May 9, 2024 · Max Steiner (born May 10, 1888, Vienna, Austria—died Dec. 28, 1971, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) was an Austrian-born U.S. composer and conductor. A prodigy, he wrote an operetta at age 14 that ran in Vienna for a year.
Austrian composer Max Steiner achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. He was born Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, Austria, the son of Marie Mizzi (Hasiba) and Gabor Steiner, an impresario, and the grandson of actor and theater director and manager Maximilian Steiner.
May 30, 2008 · Some of the best film scores from austrian composer and "father" of film scores, Maximilian Steiner. Buy the CD's of Max Steiner!
Jun 4, 2020 · Max Steiner Biographer Breaks Down How the ‘King Kong’ Composer ‘Established the Grammar of Film Music’. By Chris Willman. L. Tom Perry Special Collections/Brigham Young University Library.
In a career spanning 19th-century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, Max Steiner did more than any other composer to create the sound and style of film music.
Nov 14, 2020 · Max Steiner, composed the 1933 score for King Kong and was one of the true pioneers of the genre known as movie music. Steiner was awarded the very first Oscar ever given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his score for Life with Father.
Oct 23, 2009 · Max Steiner was one of the pioneers of Hollywood film scoring, and also one of the most prolific, writing music for more than 250 movies over nearly four decades. His landmark 1933 music for KING KONG marked the first time that a dramatic underscore played a vital role in the filmmaking process, helping to define characters and create ...
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