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Max Steiner
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Max Steiner was born in Vienna in 1888. By his own account he still received lessons from Gustav Mahler, and he worked as an operetta conductor in Europe and on Broadway. In 1929 he came to Hollywood. With King Kong (1933) he showed what a continuous orchestral score can do: the music builds tension, sketches the island and gives the monster a theme of its own. Steiner followed the action closely and gave characters leitmotifs. He wrote well over three hundred scores, mainly for Warner Bros. Well known are Gone with the Wind (1939) with the Tara theme, Casablanca (1942) and the Western The Searchers (1956). He is often called the father of Hollywood film music.
Listening
King Kong · National Philharmonic Orchestra & Charles Gerhardt, 1933
Main Title · Max Steiner, 1939
Casablanca · National Philharmonic Orchestra & Charles Gerhardt, 1942- Tara · Max Steiner, 1939
Discography
Studio albums
- 1954King Richard and the Crusaders - The Complete Original Film Score (soundtrack)
- 1957Band of Angels (soundtrack)
- 1958Marjorie Morningstar
- 1958Marjorie Morningstar (soundtrack)
- 1959John Paul Jones (soundtrack)
- 1961Gone With the Wind (soundtrack)
- 1961Parrish (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
- 1961Popular Piano Concertos of the Great Love Themes from "Parrish" (soundtrack)
- 1962Sound Track Music From The Warner Bros. Picture "Rome Adventure" And Other Neapolitan Favorites
- 1974A Summer Place & Helen of Troy
- 1974Bird of Paradise (soundtrack)
- 1975A Star Is Born (soundtrack)
- 1977The Little Minister (soundtrack)
- 1983Gone With the Wind (soundtrack)
- 1984King Kong (soundtrack)
- 1989Max Steiner’s Classic Film Score “Gone With The Wind” (soundtrack)
- 1992Since You Went Away (soundtrack)
- 1995Rózsa: The King's Thief / Young: Scaramouche / Korngold: Captain Blood / Steiner: The Three Musketeers
- 1995This Is Cinerama: At the Movies (soundtrack)
- 1996At the Movies
- 1996The Adventures of Mark Twain / The Prince and the Pauper (soundtrack)
- 1996The Searchers (soundtrack)
- 1997Casablanca (soundtrack)
- 1997King Kong (soundtrack)
- 1998The Flame and the Arrow (soundtrack)
- 1998The Flame And The Arrow
- 1999They Died With Their Boots On (soundtrack)
- 2000Helen of Troy (soundtrack)
- 2000Pursued (Original Motion Picture Score)
- 2001Dodge City And The Oklahoma Kid
- 2001The Glass Menagerie (soundtrack)
- 2001The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (soundtrack)
- 2002The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (soundtrack)
- 2003A Summer Place (soundtrack)
- 2003Music For Bette Davis Films All This, and Heaven Too - A Stolen Life (soundtrack)
- 2004Adventures of Don Juan (soundtrack)
- 2004Battle Cry (soundtrack)
- 2004Distant Drums (soundtrack)
- 2004She (soundtrack)
- 2004The Adventures of Mark Twain (soundtrack)
- 2004The Fountainhead (soundtrack)
- 2005Johnny Belinda (soundtrack)
- 2006Dark Victory (soundtrack)
- 2007The Letter (soundtrack)
- 2007The Three Musketeers (soundtrack)
- 2009Micmacs à tire-larigot (soundtrack)
- 2009She (Complete Score to the 1935 Film) (soundtrack)
- 2009The Charge of the Light Brigade (The Comple Max Steiner Score) (soundtrack)
- 2012Adventures Of Don Juan/Arsenic And Old Lace (soundtrack)
- 2013Those Calloways (soundtrack)
- 2015Come Next Spring (soundtrack)
- 2016Fighter Squadron (soundtrack)
- 2017The Caine Mutiny (soundtrack)
- 2025King Kong
- 2026Now, Voyager (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
- ?Beyond the Forest (soundtrack)
- ?Since You Went Away (soundtrack)
In School of Rock
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- Film Music MapNL Map
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 2NL Reader
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 7NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Golden Age: symphonic Hollywood and leitmotif Genre
With King Kong (1933), Max Steiner showed what a continuous orchestral score could do in a sound film.