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Music by Max Steiner - The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer (Hardcover)
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Music by Max Steiner - The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Biographies
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During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna
to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time
Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer
to introduce and establish the language of film music. Indeed,
revered contemporary film composers like John Williams and Danny
Elfman use the same techniques that Steiner himself perfected in
his iconic work for such classics as Casablanca, King Kong, Gone
with the Wind, The Searchers, Now, Voyager, the Astaire-Rogers
musicals, and over 200 other titles. And Steiner's private life was
a drama all its own. Born into a legendary Austrian theatrical
dynasty, he became one of Hollywood's top-paid composers. But he
was also constantly in debt-the inevitable result of gambling,
financial mismanagement, four marriages, and the actions of his
emotionally troubled son. Throughout his chaotic life, Steiner was
buoyed by an innate optimism, a quick wit, and an instinctive gift
for melody, all of which would come to the fore as he met and
worked with luminaries like Richard Strauss, George Gershwin,
Irving Berlin, the Warner Bros., David O. Selznick, Bette Davis,
Frank Sinatra, and Frank Capra. In Music by Max Steiner, the first
full biography of Steiner, author Steven C. Smith interweaves the
dramatic incidents of Steiner's personal life with an accessible
exploration of his composing methods and experiences, bringing to
life the previously untold story of a musical pioneer and master
dramatist who helped create a vital new art with some of the
greatest film scores in cinema history.
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