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Max Steiner

Biography

Birth: 1888 in Vienna, Austria

Death: 1971 in Los Angeles, California

Notes:

  • First composed at age 14 and conducted at age 16.
  • Scored 111 films for RKO Radio Studios
  • He is most famous for his score to Gone With the Wind
  • Scored the theme to Warner Bros Studios
  • He won three Academy Awards.

Highlight Films:

The Jazz Singer (AA:N) (1952)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Adventures of Mark Twain (AA:N) (1944)
Since You Went Away (AA:W) (1944)
Casablanca (AA:N) (1942)
Now, Voyager (AA:W) (1942)
Gone with the Wind (AA:N) (1939)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
The Informer (AA:W) (1935)
Anne of Green Gables (1934)
King Kong (1933)

Links:

The International Movie Database
Movie Tunes - Max Steiner


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