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Max Steiner

1888 - 1971

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Steiner is the 307th most popular composer (down from 275th in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 274th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Austrian Composer.

Max Steiner is most famous for his work in film music, composing the scores for films such as King Kong and Gone with the Wind.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Max Steiner ranks 307 out of 1,451. Before him are Martin Agricola, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Stephen Schwartz, Dimitri Tiomkin, Gustave Charpentier, and Pierre De Geyter. After him are Niccolò Jommelli, Gustav Leonhardt, Antonio Lotti, Johann Mattheson, Cipriano de Rore, and Johann Kuhnau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Max Steiner ranks 48. Before him are Josef Albers, Ernst Kretschmer, August Kubizek, Oskar Schlemmer, Ernst Heinkel, and Vladimir K. Zworykin. After him are Nuri al-Said, Irving Berlin, Fritz Klein, Georgios Papandreou, John Foster Dulles, and Heinrich Neuhaus. Among people deceased in 1971, Max Steiner ranks 36. Before him are Arne Jacobsen, Lothar Rendulic, Marcel Dupré, Violet Jessop, Bernardo Houssay, and Yrjö Väisälä. After him are Johannes Frießner, Roy O. Disney, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Pier Angeli, W. O. Bentley, and Gregorio Pietro Agagianian.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Max Steiner ranks 293 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (1534), Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892), Cecilia Renata of Austria (1611), Bertha Pappenheim (1859), Friedrich Adler (1879), and William, Duke of Austria (1370). After him are Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1762), Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924), Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania (1574), István Széchenyi (1791), and Ferdinand Čatloš (1895).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Max Steiner ranks 28. Before him are Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), Joseph Lanner (1801), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Clemens Krauss (1893), and Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800). After him are Ernst Krenek (1900), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), Robert Stolz (1880), Oscar Straus (1870), Robert Fuchs (1847), and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620).

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