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5 days ago · Max Steiner (born May 10, 1888, Vienna, Austria—died Dec. 28, 1971, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) Austrian-born U.S. composer and conductor. A prodigy, he wrote an operetta at age 14 that ran in Vienna for a year. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1914 and worked in New York City as a theatre conductor and arranger, and then he moved to Hollywood in 1929.
Jun 4, 2020 · Max Steiner Biographer Breaks Down How the ‘King Kong’ Composer ‘Established the Grammar of Film Music’. Steven C. Smith ’s first book, 1991’s “A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life ...
December 28, 1971 · Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (congestive heart failure) Birth name. Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner. Height. 5′ 4″ (1.63 m) Mini Bio. Austrian composer Max Steiner achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores.
Apr 18, 2021 · The story of Steiner is also the story of Golden Age Hollywood, and Smith, a meticulous cultural historian, delivers a detailed history of the transition from silent to talkie, the growing power of music in movies, the rise and fall of the studio system, and the long struggle of movie composers to receive residuals – largely initiated by ...
FATHERING FILM MUSIC: A MAX STEINER RETROSPECTIVE by Paul Cote. Max Steiner, perhaps more so than any other iconic Hollywood film composer, is a difficult sell for contemporary audiences. On the one hand, in Hollywood he was and remains universally acknowledged as the “father of film music.”
Jun 5, 2020 · Film Score Pioneer Max Steiner Is Ripe for Rediscovery, with the Help of a New Biography. Composer Max Steiner, whose scores for “King Kong,” “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca ...
Oct 23, 2009 · Max Steiner - The Society of Composers and Lyricists. October 23, 2009 Hall of Fame. Share. 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.
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