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Max Steiner filmography. Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian -born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen.
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.
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 ...
Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer - YouTube. 0:00 / 1:04:38. In a career spanning 19th-century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of...
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 ...
Jun 5, 2020 · Composer Max Steiner, whose scores for “King Kong,” “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca” placed him in the movie-music pantheon, isn’t much discussed today. He seems to belong to that...
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.”
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