ABOUT MAX STEINER
One of cinema's greatest composers. He wrote the scores for 'King Kong' from 1933 and 'Gone with the Wind' from 1939. He was part of a select group of composers that included Alfred Newman and Erich Wolfgang Korngold who pioneered the art of film scores.
He studied under Johannes Brahms . He was privately taught by Robert Fuchs and Gustav Mahler .
His film compositions were nominated for Academy Awards 24 times, and he won three: for 1935's "The Informer," 1942's "Now, Voyager," and "Since You Went Away" from 1944.
He grew up an only child in a prosperous, theatrical Jewish family residing in Austria-Hungary. He married twice, to Louise Klos, then to Aubrey in 1924. He was the godson of composer Richard Strauss .
He also composed the score to 1942's "Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart .
