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Max Steiner

Austrian-born American composer (1888–1971)

This article is about the Austrian-American composer. For Austrian actor and theater manager (1839–1880), see Maximilian Steiner. For the pornographic actor with the pseudonym Max Steiner, see Max Hardcore.

Max Steiner

Steiner composing

Born

Maximilian Raoul Steiner


(1888-05-10)10 May 1888

Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)

Died28 December 1971(1971-12-28) (aged 83)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

NationalityAmerican (naturalized citizen 1920)
Occupation(s)Composer, arranger, conductor
Years active1907–1965
Labels
Spouses
  • Beatrice Steiner (m. 1912–?)
  • Aubrey Steiner

    (m. 1927; div. 1933)​
    ;
  • Louise Klos

    (m. 1936; div. 1946)​
    ;
  • Leonette "Lee" Steiner

    (m. 1947⁠–⁠1971)​

Maximilian Raoul Steiner[a] (10 May 1888 – 28 December 1971) was an Austrian composer and conduc

Top 8 classical music biopics

If you need a change from online concerts and operas but you still want to keep a link with music, here's a selection of musical biopics to see (or perhaps revisit) in this time of lockdown. With Tino Rossi as Schubert, Gustav Leonhardt as Bach or Gérard Depardieu as Marin Marais, here's a whistle stop tour around the best feature films featuring emblematic figures of classical music.

1Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984) 

It's incontestably the top musical biopic of all time. Everything has been said about this film, one to be devoured greedily. Mozart, whose music is performed by Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, is presented as a frivolous party animal with an oversized ego. But apart from its world-wide success, this Milos Forman feature has contributed to telling people something about Salieri, in spite of the exaggeration of his rivalry with Mozart – the film is based on the eponymous Peter Shaffer play, which takes some serious liberties with historical fact. We know perfectly well that it's not S

Best Schubert Works: 10 Essential Pieces By The Great Composer

Described by Liszt as “the most poetic of composers,” Franz Schubert became the quintessential composer of the early Romantic period. He composed prolifically, writing music in almost all of the major genres, and his songs set a standard that was unsurpassed for more than a century. His was a short, brilliant life, spent almost entirely in the city of Vienna. His early death, at the age of 31, inspired a welter of sentimental myths. An image of a happy-go-lucky bohemian lingered well into the twentieth century. The truth was darker and more complex.

In his lifetime, Schubert was known for his songs, part-songs and shorter piano pieces. The discovery of his wider output began in 1839, when Robert Schumann came across the manuscript of the ‘Great’ C Major Symphony, then unperformed. In the 1860s further orchestral masterpieces such as the ‘Unfinished’ Symphony and the C Major String Quintet received their premieres. Though chamber works like the ‘Trout’ Quintet, the Octet and

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