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May 29, 2018 · Born: Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, 10 May 1888; his father and grandfather were impressarios of operetta. Education: Studied at the Vienna Imperial Academy of Music, with Robert Fuchs, Herman Graedner, Felix Weingartner and briefly Gustav Mahler. Career: Child prodigy, as composer and conductor: his own operetta The Pretty Greek ...
Nov 1, 2019 · Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music: Directed by Diana Friedberg. With Max Steiner, Lionel Friedberg, Ray Faiola, Leonard Maltin. A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the Wind, to Casablanca and beyond.
Max Steiner. Maximilian Raoul Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's greatest musical composers. Steiner was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, proficient at composing ...
Jun 16, 2020 · All this changed in 1932, when David O. Selznick, then the head of production at RKO, asked Max Steiner, a Viennese émigré who was in charge of the studio’s music department, to write an original score for Gregory La Cava’s Symphony of Six Million. “The entire picture,” Selznick decreed, “is to be accompanied by a symphonic ...
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 ...
Feb 2, 2023 · Max Steiner was born in 1888 in Vienna, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born into an upper middle-class family involved in the Viennese music and theatre scene – his father was an impresario and his mother was a dancer-turned-restauranteur.
Jun 18, 2020 · Steiner ended his career in triumph: at age 71, although practically blind, he wrote what Billboard called the most successful instrumental single of the era: “Theme from A Summer Place .”. Throughout his chaotic life, Steiner was buoyed by a quick wit and an instinctive gift for melody, as he met and worked with a Who’s Who of artists ...
