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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Max Steiner canonical 62
Max Steiner filmography 1

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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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On Moonlight Bay musicBy Max Steiner
Angels with Dirty Faces musicBy Max Steiner
The Informer musicBy Max Steiner
subject surface form: The Informer (1935 film)
Watch on the Rhine musicBy Max Steiner
The Life of Emile Zola musicBy Max Steiner
The Garden of Allah musicBy Max Steiner
subject surface form: The Garden of Allah (1936 film)
All This, and Heaven Too musicBy Max Steiner
Dodge City (1939 film) musicBy Max Steiner
Desperate Journey musicBy Max Steiner
Four Mothers musicBy Max Steiner