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Max Steiner

1888 - 1971

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Maximilian Raoul Steiner (10 May 1888 – 28 December 1971) was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's greatest musical composers. Steiner was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, proficient at composing, arranging, and conducting, by the time he was fifteen. Threatened with internment in England during World War I, he fled to Broadway; and in 1929 he moved to Hollywood, where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Steiner has received more than 958,322 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Max Steiner is the 275th most popular composer (down from 264th in 2019), the 274th most popular biography from Austria (down from 261st in 2019) and the 24th most popular Austrian Composer.

Max Steiner is most famous for his work in film music, composing the scores for films such as King Kong and Gone with the Wind.

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  • 960k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Max Steiner ranks 275 out of 1,451. Before him are Ernst von Dohnányi, Georges Auric, Gioseffo Zarlino, Alan Silvestri, Carl Reinecke, and Carl Stamitz. After him are Riccardo Broschi, Anton Arensky, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Louis-Claude Daquin, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, and Rodolphe Kreutzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Max Steiner ranks 50. Before him are Ernst Heinkel, Ernst Kretschmer, Carin Göring, August Kubizek, Irving Berlin, and Oskar Schlemmer. After him are John Foster Dulles, Thea von Harbou, Heinrich Neuhaus, Georgios Papandreou, Tôn Đức Thắng, and Nuri al-Said. Among people deceased in 1971, Max Steiner ranks 34. Before him are Rudolf Abel, Jacobo Árbenz, Roy O. Disney, Marcel Dupré, Pier Angeli, and Violet Jessop. After him are Johannes Frießner, Bernardo Houssay, John Boyd Orr, Heinz Lammerding, Diane Arbus, and Raoul Hausmann.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Max Steiner ranks 274 out of 1,424. Before him are Koloman Moser (1868), Fanny Elssler (1810), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893), Udo Jürgens (1934), and Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818). After him are Ferdinand Čatloš (1895), Walter Kohn (1923), Claudia Felicitas of Austria (1653), Hans Hollein (1934), Gaston Glock (1929), and Paul Watzlawick (1921).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Max Steiner ranks 24. Before him are Ludwig Minkus (1826), Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), Clemens Krauss (1893), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736). After him are Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Joseph Lanner (1801), Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), and Johann Joseph Fux (1660).

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