Max Steiner

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Max Steiner was an Austrian-American composer and conductor renowned as one of the founding fathers of film music, scoring classics such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austrian-American
conductor
film composer
human
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
Academy Award for Best Original Score
surface form: Academy Award for Best Scoring
countryOfCitizenship Austria
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1888-05-10
dateOfDeath 1971-12-28
employer RKO Radio Pictures
Warner Bros. Entertainment
surface form: Warner Bros.
ethnicGroup Jewish
familyName Steiner
fieldOfWork film score composition
fullName Maximilian Raoul Steiner
genre classical music
film score
givenName Maximilian
influenced development of the classical Hollywood film score
influencedBy Gustav Mahler
Richard Wagner
late-Romantic classical music
instrument piano
movement Hollywood Golden Age
surface form: Golden Age of Hollywood
nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
notableAchievement Considered one of the founding fathers of film music
notableCharacteristic pioneering use of leitmotifs in film scores
notableWork Score for "A Star Is Born" (1937)
Casablanca
surface form: Score for "Casablanca"

Score for "Dark Victory"
Score for "Gone with the Wind"
film King Kong (1933)
surface form: Score for "King Kong" (1933)

Score for "Mildred Pierce"
Score for "Now, Voyager"
Score for "Sergeant York"
Score for "Since You Went Away"
Score for "The Big Sleep"
Score for "The Caine Mutiny"
Score for "The Searchers"
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
surface form: Score for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

White Heat
surface form: Score for "White Heat"
occupation composer
conductor
orchestrator
placeOfBirth Vienna
surface form: Vienna, Austria-Hungary
placeOfDeath Los Angeles, California, United States of America
surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States
residence Los Angeles
surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States

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John Williams influencedBy Max Steiner
Casablanca musicBy Max Steiner
Four Daughters musicBy Max Steiner
Gone with the Wind musicBy Max Steiner
Johnny Belinda musicBy Max Steiner
film King Kong (1933) musicBy Max Steiner
subject surface form: King Kong (1933 film)
Little Women (1933 film) musicBy Max Steiner
Morning Glory musicBy Max Steiner
subject surface form: Morning Glory (1933 film)
Son of Kong musicBy Max Steiner
The Big Sleep musicBy Max Steiner
subject surface form: The Big Sleep (1946 film)
The Gay Divorcee musicBy Max Steiner
The Most Dangerous Game musicBy Max Steiner
subject surface form: The Most Dangerous Game (1932 film)