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- Steiner is credited with having changed what people expected from film music: melodic themes associated with characters and more of a ‘wall-to-wall’ underscoring approach. He was Musical Director at RKO when he wrote the score for King Kong (1933), which has been called the first great movie score.
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Jun 4, 2020 · News. Jun 4, 2020 10:00am PT. Max Steiner Biographer Breaks Down How the ‘King Kong’ Composer ‘Established the Grammar of Film Music’. By Chris Willman. L. Tom Perry Special...
Oct 21, 2021 · King Kong made Max Steiner’s name well known as one of the first great examples of the use of modern compositional techniques in cinema, even though the year before he inaugurated some of these techniques in his score for Symphony of Six Million. Steiner came along at a moment when a new art form—film with sound—needed a new synthesis of ...
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Jun 15, 2020 · Max’s early attempts to blend underscoring and onscreen dialogue were usually thwarted, by literal-minded producers who asked: where was the music coming from? But with scores like 1932’s Symphony of Six Million and 1933’s King Kong, Steiner proved that audiences accepted the unreality of an unseen orchestra accompanying the drama.
Apr 18, 2021 · Steiner’s breakthrough came in 1933 with King Kong, a massive score that is both shuddery and sentimental, epic and intimate, establishing, in composer Danny Elfman’s words, “the entire concept of a full-blown synchronized film score.”.
Steiner: King Kong - Classics Today. David Hurwitz. Artistic Quality: 9. Sound Quality: 9. This was the score that, in a sense, started it all. Certainly by 1933 writing music for movies was not new, but Max Steiner’s contribution for King Kong was more extensive, more colorful, and more musically integrated than virtually all previous examples.
