Max Steiner
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Biography
Maximilian Raoul Steiner (May 10, 1888 â December 28, 1971) was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and went on to become 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. Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO Pictures and Warner Bros., and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935); Now, Voyager (1942); and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), and Casablanca (1942), though he did not compose its love theme, "As Time Goes By". In addition, Steiner scored The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and Gone with the Wind (1939), which ranked second on the AFI's list of best American film scores, and is the film score for which he is best known. He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score for Life with Father. Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the best known film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, and William Wyler, and scored many of the films with Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Fred Astaire. Many of his film scores are available as separate soundtrack recordings.
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- The Searchers by Sons of the Pioneers
- Melanie And Mammy
- Scarlett In The Mist/rhett Leaves
- Flashback/finale
- Twenty Inches!
- Medley: Paris Montage (As Time Goes By / La Marsellaise / Romance / Perfidia / Gracioso / Nazi Spy / Menace) / Perfidia (From "Casablanca")
- Knock On Wood
- The New Store
- Medley: Ilsa Returns To Rick's (Ilsa Returns / As Time Goes By Bitterness / Laszlo / Agitato No. 1 / Isla / La Marsellaise) (From "Casablanca")
- Medley: Play It Sam...Play "As Time Goes By", Avalon / As Time Goes By (From "Casablanca")
- Scarlett In Shantytown
- Medley: Main Title / Prologue (Africa, La Marseillaise, Refugue, Street Scene, Ordes, Roundup, Thief) / La Marsellaise (From "Casablanca")
- Belle Watling And Melanie
- Medley: Rick Confronts Ilsa And Laszlo (Con Moto / Laszlo / Agitato No. 2 / As Time Goes By / Ilsa Returns / Ilsa Running) (From "Casablanca")
- Medley: Ilsa Demands The Letters (Deutschland Ãber Alles / Babble / Laszlo / Night / Die Wacht Am Rhein / As Time Goes By) / Deutschland Ãber Alles (From "Casablanca")
- Of All The Gin Joints In All The Towns In All The World Piano Improvisation (From "Casablanca")
- Paddock Scene
- Medley: At Ta Belle Aurore (As Time Goes By / Voice / Die Wacht Am Rhein / Instructions / The Station / La Marsellaise / Ilsa Returns) / Die Wacht Am Rhein (From "Casablanca")
- Since You Went Away
- Medley: (It Had To Be You, Shine) / It Had To Be You (From "Casablanca")
- The Mule - Digging - Cave In featuring Moscow Symphony Orchestra
- The Riverboat in Fog featuring Moscow Symphony Orchestra
- The Gold Rush featuring Moscow Symphony Orchestra
- Frank Kennedy Asks for Suellen's Hand
