Music by Max Steiner : the epic life of Hollywood's most influential composer / Steven C. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Steven C., author.

Series:

Oxford cultural biographies.

Oxford cultural biographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steiner, Max, 1888-1971.

Steiner, Max.

Composers--Biography.

Composers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

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 establish and codify the language of film music. Composers today like John Williams use the same techniques perfected by the classically trained Steiner, in his scores for such motion pictures as Casablanca, King Kong, Gone with the Wind, The Searchers, Now, Voyager, the Astaire-Rogers musicals, and more than two hundred other titles. Steiner's private life was as tumultuous as the films he scored.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-062329-2

0-19-062330-6

0-19-062328-4

OCLC:

1158962402