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Steven C. Smith Music by Max Steiner (Hardback) Cultural Biographies (UK IMPORT). Title: Music by Max Steiner. Series: Cultural Biographies. Author: Steven C. Smith. Format: Hardback. Topic: Music Dance & Theatre, Biography. Release Date: 07/17/2020. Release Year: 2020. Language: English. Further DetailsTitle: Music by Max Steiner Condition: New Author: Steven C. Smith Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc EAN: 9780190623272 Format: Hardback Subtitle: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer ISBN-10: 0190623276 ISBN: 9780190623272 Release Date: 07/17/2020 Item Height: 238mm Language: English Genre: Business & Finance Topic: Music Dance & Theatre, Biography Item Length: 163mm Item Width: 35mm Item Weight: 846g Description: 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. Series: Cultural Biographies Release Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
