Music by Max Steiner: the epic life of Hollywood's most influential composer

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 establish and codify the language of film music. Composers today like John Williams use the same techni...

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1. Verfasser: Smith, Steven C. ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Oxford cultural biographies
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Zusammenfassung: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 establish and codify the language of film music. Composers today like John Williams use the same techniques perfected by the classically trained Steiner, in his scores for such motion pictures as Casablanca, King Kong, Gone with the Wind, The Searchers, Now, Voyager, the Astaire-Rogers musicals, and more than two hundred other titles. Steiner's private life was as tumultuous as the films he scored
Beschreibung:Also issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (424 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780190623302
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190623272.001.0001

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