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He is often referred to as "the father of film music ", as Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films, along with composers Dimitri Tiomkin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, and Miklós Rózsa.
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!
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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.
YearFilmDirectorRole1929Film score1930Lynn ShoresFilm score1930Film score1930Film scoreIn 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.
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Aug 22, 2023 · Max Steiner's greatest hits and then some of one of Hollywood's greatest composers.
Max Steiner 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. 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.
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