Max Steiner

Max Steiner is a popular Soundtrack artist from Austria, born on May 10, 1888.

Max Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian composer who achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. As a child he was astonishingly musically gifted, composing complex works as a teenager and completing the course of study at Vienna's Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in only one year, at the age of sixteen. He studied under Gustav Mahler and, before the age of twenty, made his living as a conductor and as composer of works for the theater . Popular albums include "Casablanca (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" and "Gone With the Wind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)".