Max Steiner
Maximilian Raoul Steiner ( born May 10, 1888 in Vienna, † December 28, 1971 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an Austrian-American composer and a total of 24 Oscar nominations, one of the most successful film music composer. Famous his scores are Gone with the Wind, as well as to the summer island.
Life
Steiner was born in Vienna's Leopoldstadt Hotel Nord train and came from a theatrical dynasty; his grandfather Maximilian Steiner was, inter alia, director of the " Theater an der Wien ", and his father was Gabor Steiner in Vienna also a theater director. He graduated from the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts at age 16. 15 years old Steiner debuted in 1903 with his operetta The beautiful Greek. He received his education among others, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss.
In the years 1904 to 1914 Steiner worked as a conductor and arranger in the UK; mostly in London. Then he moved to America, where he worked as a composer, arranger and conductor. In 1916 he composed his first film score. 1929 Max Steiner went to Hollywood, where he first worked for the film company RKO Pictures. Among his better known scores include the music for King Kong and the white woman from the year 1933. First time in the history of film -backed Steiner and Kaun doing dialogs with music, which greatly increased the dramatic effect. Steiner won in 1935 for the score to The traitor his first Oscar for Best Film Music. He won the award again in 1942 for travel from the past and 1944 Since You Went Away. He also received 21 other nominations. Since 1937, Warner Brothers contract, Steiner wrote, among other things, the music for Casablanca. His best known work he provided for Gone with the Wind from 1939, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. The orchestral version of the theme to The Percy Faith Summer Island was 1959/1960 for several weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100
1953 Steiner founded his own music publishing and was thus able to market his works even better. The "Max Steiner Society " awards honorary memberships for particularly successful interpretations of his music. From Germany the composer Martin Böttcher is an honorary member of the society. Max Steiner is one of the most prolific and successful composers in Hollywood. 2003, the U.S. Postal Service published a 37- cent stamp with Steiner motif.
Max Steiner died at the age of 83 years in Beverly Hills.
Trivia
In the 1932 film to published " The Half Naked Truth " by Gregory La Cava Max Steiner is seen as conductor of the theater orchestra a few times.
Filmography (selection)
Awards
His film scores for King Kong and the white woman and Mushy reached number 13 and number 2 in the issued by the American Film Institute's list of the 25 greatest film scores of 100 years. Max Steiner is jointly owned by Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein and Jerry Goldsmith to those composers who are represented twice in the list. Only John Williams summed it up three nominations.
Appreciation
- Shortly after his death, the conductor Charles Gerhardt recorded an album Steiner's best-known pieces with the British National Philharmonic Orchestra under the title Now Voyager (1973 ) on the label RCA Victor to.
- On the occasion of Steiner's 100th birthday in 1988, a plaque of hotel owners Reinhard Blum Auer, district director Heinz White man and the Vienna Mayor Helmut Zilk was at his birthplace in Vienna Leopoldstadt revealed.
- 1995 Steiner was added posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
- The United States Postal Service in 1999 published the stamp series "American Music Series " in honor bakannter Hollywood composers, including Steiner.
- On the Hollywood Walk of Fame remembers a star in height 1551 Vine Street at him.
- To him, the Max Steiner film Music Achievement Award will be presented at the Hollywood in Vienna Gala since 2009 in honor. Hollywood in Vienna is an annual that takes place in Vienna film music gala concert, during which the Max Steiner film Music Achievement Award is awarded. The last " Hollywood in Vienna " Gala was held on October 4, 2013.
The plaque at the Hotel Vienna today