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Author Wegele, Peter

Title Max Steiner : composing, Casablanca, and the golden age of film music / Peter Wegele
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 259 pages)
Contents Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Life of Max Steiner -- Chapter 3 Casablanca -- Appendix A Comparison of Max Steiner with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, and Hugo Friedhofer -- Appendix B Awards and Honors -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- About the Author
Summary This biography of Steiner provides insight into how the film music industry worked and functioned during the Golden era of film scores. The central part of this work is an analysis of Steiner's score to Casablanca from a musician's point of view. The author also compares Steiner's work with several of his contemporaries, including Hugo Friedhofer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, and Franz Waxman
Bibliography Includes filmography (pages 221-241), bibliographical references (pages 243-249), and index
Notes Translation of: Der Filmkomponist Max Steiner (1888-1971). Wien : Böhlau Verlag, 2012
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Subject Steiner, Max, 1888-1971.
Steiner, Max, 1888-1971. Casablanca.
SUBJECT Steiner, Max, 1888-1971 fast
Casablanca (Steiner, Max) fast
Subject Film composers -- United States -- Biography
Composers -- United States -- Biography
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Composers
Film composers
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020738915
ISBN 9781442231146
1442231149
1306706475
9781306706476
Other Titles Filmkomponist Max Steiner (1888-1971). English