Max Steiner

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Maximilian Raoul Max Steiner May 10 1888 December 28 1971 was an Austrianborn American composer of music for theatre and films He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a fulltime professional either composing arranging or conducting when he was fifteen Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards winning three The Informer 1935 Now Voyager 1942 and Since You Went Away 1944 Besides his Oscarwinning scores some of Steiners popular works include King Kong 1933 Little Women 1933 Jezebel 1938 Casablanca 1942 The Searchers 1956 A Summer Place 1959 and the film score for which he is possibly best known Gone with the Wind 1939 He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score which he won for his score to Life with Father Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the most famous film directors in history including Michael Curtiz John Ford Howard Hawks William Dieterle William Wyler Raoul Walsh John Huston Irving Pichel King Vidor and Frank Capra