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Max Steiner

Max Steiner was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films. Trained by both Brahms and Mahler, he was one of the first classically trained composers who wrote music primarily for motion pictures, and as such is often referred to as "the father of film music". Along with such composers as Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Alfred Newman, Steiner played a major role in formulating the tradition of writing music for films.

Steiner was one of the best-known composers in Hollywood, and is widely regarded today as one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema. He composed hundreds of film scores for films including The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944), which won him Academy Awards. He was nominated for the Academy Award a total of twenty-four times. He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to Life with Father. Some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933),

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MAX STEINER

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.” As a composer, Steiner’s music had extraordinary influence on the techniques, approaches, and conventions that remain the foundation of film music in the Western world. It was Steiner who established the Wagnerian leitmotif convention for cinema, Steiner who pioneered the click track, Steiner who gave us the concept of “Mickey Mousing” (though that certainly isn’t what he called it), Steiner who made people realize the role that music can play in establishing a picture’s sense of spectacle, and Steiner who established the defining cultural music idioms in nearly every genre he touched. At the same time, many of the conventions that Steiner established now seem so clichéd that modern audiences struggle to take his music seriously. For today’s audiences, Steiner’s “Mickey-Mousing

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Maximillian Raoul Walter Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria, May 10, 1888. His grandfather, Maximillian Steiner, was a variety theater owner in Vienna. Max's father, Gabor Steiner, was an entrepreneur who, in 1894, saw Imre Kirhaly's extravagant exhibition "Venice in London" at the Olympic Hall in London. After returning to Vienna, Gabor bought the Imperial Garden in the Vienna Wurstel Prater from an English real estate speculator. He then hired architects Marmorek and Moser and sent them on a study trip to Venice. Two years later "Venice in Vienna" opened its doors and in 1897 along with the Giant "Riesenrad" Wheel (designed by British naval lieutenant Walter B. Basset and his partner Hitchens) as the show's main attraction. Gabor Steiner became one of Vienna's most prominent producers, bringing to the public the wonderful operettas of, among others, Johann Strauss.

A child prodigy, young Max Steiner completed the four year course of study at Vienna's Hochschule Music Academy in only one year. His professors included Gustav Mahler, Gustav Kirker and Felix Weingartner. At age 1