Maximilian Raoul Steiner, better known by his screen name, Max Steiner was an Austrian-born American musical artist who was noted for his compositions in theater and film productions. A child prodigy, Steiner had a penchant for music from a very early and he conducted his first operetta when he was just 12 years old and by the age of 15, he turned a professional composer.
In 1929, Steiner moved to Hollywood form England where he became one of the first compose and write musical scores for films. A three-time Academy Award winner and the first ever recipient of Golden Globe for Best Original Score, Steiner for his immense contribution to the music industry, Steiner was referred as the 'father of film music'.
Steiner, who in his illustrious career has collaborated with several renowned composers like Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Miklos Rozsa, and Dimitri Tiomkin, in his career composed music for more than 300 films. Some of his most notable feature film composition credits include The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), Since You Went Away (1944), King Kong (1933), Gone with the Wind (1939), Casablanca (1956), and A Summer Place (1959).