Max Steiner - Definition and Overview

For other uses, see Max Steiner (disambiguation).

Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner (May 10, 1888 - December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-American composer of music for films. Born in Vienna, and the grandson of Maximilian Steiner (1839-1880), influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien, he was a child prodigy in composing. He received piano instruction from Johannes Brahms, and later studied under Gustav Mahler. He emigrated to the United States in 1914.

He scored hundreds of Hollywood films, and was the most prominent composer in the music department of Warner Brothers Studios. He received 26 Academy Award nominations for his work, winning 3 Oscars; he did not win for what is perhaps his most familiar score, that of Gone With the Wind.

He is entombed in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Selected filmography

• Cimarron (1931)
• King Kong (1933)
• The Gay Divorcee (1934)
• The Informer (Academy Award, 1935)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
• A Star Is Born (1937)
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
• Jezebel (1938)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• The Letter (1940)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• Now, Voyager (Academy Award, 1942)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Since You Went Away (Academy Award, 1944)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• Life with Father (1947)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• The Caine Mutiny (1954)
• The Searchers (1956)

External link

• IMDb filmography (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000070/)