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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Max Steiner
		Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner (Born May 10, 1888 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary; Died December 28, 1971) in Hollywood, California) was an Austrian-American composer of music for films.
		The grandson of Maximilian Steiner (1839-1880), influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien, he was a child prodigy in composing.
		Steiner has a star on the Walk of Fame, located at 1551 Vine Street, for his contribution to motion pictures.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Max_Steiner (291 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Steiner won three Academy Awards (out of 27 nominations), for "The Informer" (1935), "Now, Voyager" (1942), and "Since You Went Away" (1944), but he was overlooked for what is considered his greatest achievement, the music for "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
		Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner was born in Vienna.
		Steiner was head of the music department at RKO from 1928 to 1936, then joined Warner Bros. as a staff composer, remaining there (apart from occasional loan-outs to other studios) until his retirement in 1965.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2077 (328 words)

	Searchers, The - Music from the Movies
		Max Steiner's music is an integral part of the film and coming 41 years late is this marvellous release of the score.
		Steiner later adapts this ballad as the theme for the racist protagonist (Wayne).
		Max Steiner's creation for The Searchers stands head high beside the best works of Rozsa, Newman, Herrmann and North as one of the great film music achievements of the 20th Century.
	www.musicfromthemovies.com /review.asp?ID=1071 (549 words)

	Max Steiner - film composer
		Max Steiner is one of the founders of film music as we know it today, along with the likes of Franz Waxman, Dimitri Tiomkin and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
		His name is now attached to the annual "Max Steiner Award" for film music which recognises Steiner's pioneering role in the early development of the craft.
		It has to be said that Steiner is not averse to borrowing the occasional tune or idea, and at times his music can seem a little clichéd to modern ears.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Max-Steiner.htm (727 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In fact, Steiner was awarded the very first Oscar citation ever given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his score for The Informer in 1935.
		Steiner was trained in the classic European tradition, attending the Imperial Academy of Music in Vienna and completing the prescribed five?year program of courses in one and one half years and received the Academy’s Gold Medal.
		Max Steiner, arguably one of the 20th century's most distinguished composers, died December 28, 1971 at age 83.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=239 (496 words)

	Max Hardcore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Max Hardcore (born Paul F. Little on August 10, 1944 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA) is a controversial and unique male porn star and producer whose films usually feature him engaging in variety of sexual encounters with young women who dress and act like prepubescent girls.
		Five video titles and the office's computer servers were seized, ostensibly for research toward a federal obscenity indictment or a charge related to the 2257 record-keeping law.
		Max Hardcore remains one of the most successful male porn stars to date, despite the fact he is one of the oldest looking adult actors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Hardcore (1212 words)

	Max Steiner
		Always confident in his talents, Steiner was realistic enough to understand that he was hired by RKO because he cost a tenth of what someone like Stowkowski would charge.
		While Steiner's detractors would characterize his spell-it-out technique as "Mickey Mousing" (in reference to the music heard in animated cartoons), producers, directors, and stars came to rely upon Steiner to make a good film better, and a great film superb.
		A proud, vain man, Steiner frequently found himself the butt of good-natured practical jokes from his fellow composers, but at Oscar time it was usually Steiner who had the last laugh.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P112635 (526 words)

	Gone with the Wind by Max Steiner (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Max Steiner's Gone with the Wind is one of the most celebrated icons of film music, alongside Star Wars and Psycho.
		Steiner used the leitmotif method to write an individual theme for each main character, saving the grandest one of all for Tara, the plantation.
		The liner notes comment, "This authentic recording of the complete score was authorized by the composer." Max Steiner had originally written over three hours of music for the lengthy epic, though not all of it was used in the film.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/1998/gonewith.html (539 words)

	The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics
		Kramer recalled how Steiner felt that any music played behind the court-martial sequence would intrude "upon the film's sense of bitter reality." And both agreed it was best not to have a single note of music for that lengthy stretch of the film's narrative.
		Steiner's music had a signature all its own, preceded by the Warner Bros. Studio fanfare he introduced in 1937 in "Tovarich" and which was repeated by all the studio's composers for years afterward.
		Steiner always established recurring themes for main characters and often assigned a motif to an object or an emotion.
	www.thecolumnists.com /stanley/stanley31.html (1343 words)

	American Composers Orchestra - David Raksin Remembers His Colleagues
		Most of the musical staff had been laid off, and Max Steiner had been asked to assume operation of the department with a drastically reduced budget: the limit for any picture was a three-hour recording session with a maximum of ten musicians.
		Max's godfather was Richard Strauss, no less, and among the family friends were Jacques Offenbach and Johann Strauss, Jr.
		Steiner came to Hollywood in 1929 and remained there for 42 years, during which he worked, sometimes as conductor or arranger, sometimes as both, but principally as composer.
	www.americancomposers.org /raksin_steiner.htm (797 words)

	Max Steiner - Gone With The Wind (collection)
		As one of the prime movers in the early decades of film music and the composer responsibility for putting music to many films now regarded as classics, the music of Max Steiner deserves to be celebrated.
		We also have representatives from Steiner's foray into the Western genre with "A Distant Trumpet", "The Hanging Tree" and "The Searchers", all just as evocative as the soundtracks of Elmer Bernstein or Dimitri Tiomkin.
		Steiner didn't write the theme song "As Time Goes By" (Both words and music came from the pen of Herman Hupfield) but he weaves this tune into a tapestry which includes the French and German national anthems and some atmospheric Moroccan style music.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /reviews/gone-with-the-wind-collection.htm (451 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - Max Steiner
		After 111 pictures at RKO, Steiner was hired by David O. Selznick, who assigned the composer to write the score for Gone with the Wind (1939).
		Around that time Steiner began working at Warner Bros, where he penned the studio's famous "opening logo" fanfare and also provided evocative scores for such classics as Now Voyager (1941), Casablanca (1942) and Mildred Pierce (1945).
		Steiner remained active until 1965, contributing scores to The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Searchers (1955), A Summer Place (1959) and many other films.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/biography.asp?ctr=171793 (549 words)

	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
		They, I knew now, were all made more indelible by Max Steiner's phenomenal ability to match a memorable musical idea to another's inspired imagery.
		Steiner, like perhaps every other Hollywood composer except Korngold, was capable of work that, while always professional, was less inspired than soggy on occasion.
		It is fascinating to contemplate that Max Steiner's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre received, at the time of the film's release and in critical retrospectives since, more criticism than perhaps any other of the composer's scores.
	www.audiophilia.com /software/da62.htm (754 words)

	Max STEINER She : Film Music on the Web CD Reviews Dec1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Max Steiner's considerable score for She (1935) proves, once again, the genius of 'the granddaddy' of the pioneering film composers of Hollywood's Golden Age.
		Steiner's opening Main Title music immediately evokes the flame of life and grandly states She's theme that becomes progressively colder and more remote to suggest not only the 'agelessness' of her character but also her isolation from love.
		All the cues are beautifully wrought and indeed the whole score was once aptly described as Max Steiner's "Opera Without Arias." In the lovely 'Memory Pool/Cremation' cue, She's theme is allowed some warmth as she shows Leo the image of the man she loved centuries before.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/Dec99/she.htm (880 words)

	Max Steiner's Now, Voyager — www.greenwood.com
		Max Steiner's Now Voyager: A Flim Score Guide is a welcome addition to an increasing pool of literature on film music.
		Description: Max Steiner's contribution to the formulation of early Hollywood scoring techniques is significant, particularly through his music for King Kong (1933) and The Informer (1935).
		Separate chapters discuss Steiner's musical background, his technique of film scoring, historical and critical contexts of the film, the music and its context, and an analysis of the score.
	www.greenwood.com /books/BookDetail.asp?sku=GR1253 (353 words)

	Max Steiner
		Since this was during World War I, Max was considered an enemy alien, but with a litle help from his friends he left Vienna in 1914 and docked in New York (“with $32 in my pocket”), spending the next fifteen years of his life conducting and orchestrating on Broadway.
		Max was hired on a month-by-month basis as the head of the RKO Music Department.
		In the words of Tony Thomas, “It was Steiner more than any other composer who pioneered the use of original composition for the background scoring of films.” Every film composer since then owes him a debt of thanks.
	www.settling-the-score.com /steiner.html (691 words)

	'S' ENTRIES - Page 9 on the COMPOSERS - LYRICISTS DATABASE
		Both Fred and his father, George Steiner, were active in composing and orchestrating in the Hollywood and TV studios.
		Both Steiner's father and grandfather were close friends of the famous Viennese 'Waltz King' composer, Johann Strauss.
		In 1929, Steiner traveled to Hollywood, where he was to spend thirty years scoring for hundreds of films.
	nfo.net /cal/ts9.html (1403 words)

	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Max Steiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		While often considered the godfather of the film score, Steiner wrote in a style that younger fans don't find all that appealing and even I have to work hard to enjoy his music much of the time.
		I don't doubt Steiner's dramatic instincts for the films he scored were generally good, but imagine that his active, imposing style might not sit comfortably in a fairly intimate character study on greed and male bonding.
		One of Steiner's more curious inventions is to use twinkling percussion and harps to produce what is meant to aurally represent shimmering gold and is first featured in the Main Title.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/treasureofthesierramadre.htm (542 words)

	ScoreTrack.Net: Music for Movies - Max Steiner
		He arrived in United States in 1914, and worked on Broadway as a conductor and orchestrator until 1929, when he moved to Hollywood to become RKO studio’s musical director and composer.
		Between 1936 and 1947, Steiner´s scores were orchestrated by Hugo Friedhofer, and after that by Murray Cutter.
		Steiner married four times, the last time with Leonnette Blair, his wife since 1947 until the end of his life.
	www.scoretrack.net /steiner_e.html (273 words)

	Movie Music UK - Max Steiner
		Austrian-American composer Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner was astonishingly gifted as a child, composing complex works as a teenager and completing the course of study at Vienna's Hochschule in only one year.
		Over the next thirty years, Steiner would go on to be regarded one of the most respected, innovative, and brilliant composers of film music, and score some of Warner's - and Hollywood's best loved films.
		Steiner was nominated for Academy Awards for his scores eighteen times, winning three times.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /steiner.htm (706 words)

	King Kong (Max Steiner) - scorereviews.com soundtrack review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is a performance of the complete score taken from the Steiner annotated sketches which contain every note that was written for the film.
		It was this style which Max used in the majority of his scores that made him so successful in Hollywood.
		Steiner was given the title of "The Father of Film Music" for a good reason.
	www.scorereviews.com /title.asp?id=450 (772 words)

	Charles Leinberger Dissertation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Throughout the film, Steiner associates a different theme with each main character, and constantly changes these themes, and their harmonization, to fit the changes in the film's narrative.
		n this dissertation, Steiner's use of thematic transformation, his use of tonalities, and their relationships to the characters and the narrative of the film, are discussed.
		The similarities in Steiner's use of late-nineteenth-century compositional techniques and their use by Mahler, Strauss, Wagner and others are compared and contrasted.
	home.earthlink.net /~leinberger/diss.html (2582 words)

	Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Maximillian Raoul Walter Steiner was born in Vienna on 10th May, 1888.
		In 1936, while under contract to Selznick International, Steiner was lent to Warner Bros. to score The Charge of the Light Brigade with Errol Flynn leading the noble Six Hundred, after which Steiner accepted a long-term contract, with the provision that he could work for Selznick when the producer needed him.
		Steiner's career at Warners spanned almost thirty years and included the scores of around a hundred and fifty films.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite?pn=Composers&char=S&ComposerID=2087 (603 words)

	IGN: King Kong: The Complete 1933 Film Score by Max Steiner Reconstructed By John Morgan Review
		by Spence D. December 13, 2005 - Max Steiner's score to the 1933 classic King Kong is generally regarded as one of the benchmarks of modern cinematic musical composition.
		The score opens with the "Main Title," a doom and dread laced three note clash of deep seated woodwinds and crashing cymbals before it descends into epic Hollywood-styled chills and thrills, all delivered in a whirlwind blend of strings and horns that careen and swerve to dizzying heights.
		Steiner continues to exploit the use of dizzying stylistics on "Jungle Dance," which starts out with mesmerizing woodwinds and strings, a steady, building rhythm percolating in the background as flutes and xylophone interlope to produce a frenzied fanfare that is resounds with conflicting nuances of exciting apprehension and ominous foreboding.
	music.ign.com /articles/675/675445p1.html (828 words)

	Casablanca 2 >> German-Hollywood Connection
		Even songs that Steiner did not compose (including “As Time Goes By,” written by Herman Hupfield in 1931) were skillfully blended into the score.
		Steiner's musical mastery is more apparent upon a careful viewing of the film—rather a listening—with the music consciously in mind.
		According to Rhino Records, the music sources utilized for Turner/Rhino's recent CD release were thought to be lost until missing optical nitrate recordings were discovered in the Warners vaults and combined with acetate material from the Film Music Archives at Brigham Young University, 55 years after the film's release.
	www.germanhollywood.com /casabl2.html (2602 words)

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