Max Steiner was the godson of Richard Strauss, a piano student of Brahms, and studied composition with Gustav Mahler. But late in his career he wrote this very charming and entirely unpretentious popular music.
shareJust got his soundtrack for "Rome Adventure" and cannot stop playing it. Beautiful music.
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What a talented man!
The American Film Institute respectively ranked Steiner's scores for Gone with the Wind (1939) and King Kong (1933) #2 and #13 on their list of the 25 greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list:
• Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Dark Victory (1939)
• The Informer (1935)
• Jezebel (1938)
• Johnny Belinda (1948)
• Now, Voyager (1942)
• A Summer Place (1959)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Additional filmography
• The Bondman (1929) (uncredited)
• Rio Rita (1929) (uncredited)
• The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930) (uncredited)
• Dixiana (1930) (as Orchestrator - first screen credit)
• Cimarron (1931)
• What Price Hollywood? (1932)
• Bird of Paradise (1932)
• The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
• A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
• Thirteen Women (1932)
• The Half-Naked Truth (1932)
• The Animal Kingdom (1932)
• Christopher Strong (1933)
• Rafter Romance (1933)
• King Kong (1933)
• Son of Kong (1933)
• Little Women (1933)
• Morning Glory (1933)
• Flying Down to Rio (1933) (as Musical Director)
• The Lost Patrol (Academy Award nomination, 1934)
• Of Human Bondage (1934)
• The Fountain (1934)
• The Age of Innocence (1934)
• The Gay Divorcee (as Musical Director) (Academy Award nomination, 1934)
• Anne of Green Gables (1934)
• The Little Minister (1934)
• Roberta (1935) (as Musical Director)
• The Informer (1935) (Academy Award winner)
• She (1935)
• Top Hat (1935) (as Musical Director)
• The Three Musketeers (1935)
• Follow the Fleet (1936) (as Musical Director)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
• The Garden of Allah (Academy Award nomination, 1936)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
• A Star Is Born (1937)
• Kid Galahad (1937)
• Nothing Sacred (1937) with Oscar Levant and Alfred Newman
•Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (uncredited)
• That Certain Woman (1937)
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
• Tovarich (1937) (first use of the Warner Bros. fanfare, composed by Steiner)
• Gold is Where You Find It (1938)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
• Jezebel (Academy Award nomination, 1938)
• Crime School (1938)
• Four Daughters (1938)
• The Sisters (1938)
• Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
• The Dawn Patrol (1938)
• The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
• Dodge City (1939)
• Dark Victory (Academy Award nomination, 1939)
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
• The Old Maid (1939)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) (replaced by Herbert Stothart)
• Gone with the Wind (Academy Award nomination, 1939)
• Virginia City (1940)
• All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
• The Letter (Academy Award nomination, 1940)
• Santa Fe Trail (1940)
• City for Conquest (1940)
• Shining Victory (1941)
• They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
• Sergeant York (Academy Award nomination, 1941)
• Casablanca (Academy Award nomination, 1942)
• Now, Voyager (1942) (Academy Award winner)
• Captains of the Clouds (1942)
• Since You Went Away (1944) (Academy Award winner)
• The Adventures of Mark Twain (Academy Award nomination, 1944)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• Rhapsody in Blue (Academy Award nomination, shared with Ray Heindorf, 1945)
• A Stolen Life (1946)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• Night and Day (Academy Award nomination, shared with Ray Heindorf, 1946)
• The Unfaithful (1947 film)
• Life with Father (Academy Award nomination, 1947)
• My Wild Irish Rose (Academy Award nomination, shared with Ray Heindorf, 1947)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• Key Largo (1948)
• Winter Meeting (1948)
• Johnny Belinda (Academy Award nomination, 1948)
• The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
• Beyond the Forest (Academy Award nomination, 1949)
• The Fountainhead (1949)
• The Flame and the Arrow (Academy Award nomination, 1950)
• The Glass Menagerie (1950)
• Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951)
• Operation Pacific (1951)
• The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (Academy Award nomination, 1952)
• The Jazz Singer (Academy Award nomination, shared with Ray Heindorf, 1953)
• So Big (1953)
•The Charge at Feather River
• The Caine Mutiny (Academy Award nomination, 1954)
• Battle Cry (Academy Award nomination, 1955)
• The Last Command (1955)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
• Band of Angels (1957)
• A Summer Place (1959) (Theme U.S.#1 Hit Single)
• The FBI Story (1959)
• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
• Ice Palace (1960)
• Parrish (1961)
• Susan Slade (1961)
• Rome Adventure (1962)
• Spencer's Mountain (1963)
• Youngblood Hawke (1964)
• A Distant Trumpet (1964)
• Two on a Guillotine (1965)
• Those Calloways (1965)
WHAT THE MSM HIDES:
http://theobamafile.com/index.htm
Max Steiner is the Father, Mother and Favorite Uncle of Film Music.
shareMovie girl: I love this music too! For that reason I first taped the film when our VCR was new. This is wonderful info. to know! Max was the godson of Richard Strauss, a piano student of Brahms! What a marvelous background and the music strikes a wonderful chord throughout.
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