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Music By Max Steiner The Epic Life Of Hollywoods Most Influential Composer Steven C Smith by Steven C. Smith 9780190623296, 0190623292 instant download after payment.
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 composers like 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 drama all 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 of a musical pioneer and master dramatist
who helped create a vital new art with some of the greatest film scores
in cinema history.
