9780190623272-0190623276-Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer (Cultural Biographies)

Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer (Cultural Biographies)

ISBN-13: 9780190623272
ISBN-10: 0190623276
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Steven C. Smith
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 496 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780190623272
ISBN-10: 0190623276
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Steven C. Smith
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 496 pages

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Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer (Cultural Biographies) (ISBN-13: 9780190623272 and ISBN-10: 0190623276), written by authors Steven C. Smith, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Theatre (Arts & Literature) books. You can easily purchase or rent Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer (Cultural Biographies) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Theatre books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.39.

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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 composerslike 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 dramaall 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 ofa musical pioneer and master dramatist who helped create a vital new art with some of the greatest film scores in cinema history.

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