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Also known as Maximilian Raoul Steiner

Austrian-born American music composer and conductor (1888–1971)

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Max Steiner (1888–1971) was an Austrian-American conductor, composer, screenwriter, and film score composer. Born in Vienna, he held citizenship in both Austria–Hungary and the United States. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and began his professional work in 1904. Steiner was active in the opera genre and recorded for the RCA Victor label. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Steiner died of heart failure in Beverly Hills in 1971. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. His musical output includes works categorized under film music and soundtracks. He spoke English and German.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen. Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO…

Known for

  • Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music — Self (archive footage)2019
  • Hollywood's Musical Moods — Self1976

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
50,740
Total plays
366,091

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Max Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian composer who achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. As a child he was astonishingly musically gifted, composing complex works as a teenager and completing the course of study at Vienna's Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in only one year, at the age of sixteen. He studied under Gustav Mahler and, before the age of twenty, made his living as a conductor and as composer of works

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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  4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,494x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,622x

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Key facts

Born
Maximilian Raoul Steiner , ( 1888-05-10 ) 10 May 1888, Vienna , Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Died
28 December 1971 (1971-12-28) (aged 83), Los Angeles, California , U.S.
Occupations
Composer, arranger, conductor
Years active
1907–1965
Labels
Warner Bros. Pictures RKO Radio Pictures
Spouses
Beatrice Steiner (m. 1912–?) Aubrey Steiner ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1933 ) ​ ; Louise Klos ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1936 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1946 ) ​ ; Leonette "Lee" Steiner ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 ⁠ – ⁠ 1971 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

Maximilian Raoul Steiner (10 May 1888 – 28 December 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, arranging, and conducting, by the time he was fifteen. Threatened with internment in England during World War I, he fled to Broadway; and in 1929 he moved to Hollywood, where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. He is often referred to as "the father of film music", as Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films, along with composers Dimitri Tiomkin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, and Miklós Rózsa.

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