New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

COMPOSER

Max Steiner

1888 - 1971

Photo of Max Steiner

Icon of person Max Steiner

Maximilian Raoul Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 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 908,703 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Max Steiner is the 264th most popular composer (down from 260th in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Austria (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 25th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 910k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Max Steiners by language


Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Max Steiner ranks 264 out of 1,216. Before him are Niccolò Jommelli, Ernst von Dohnányi, Gioseffo Zarlino, Leonardo Vinci, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, and Dmitry Bortniansky. After him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, André Grétry, Gaspare Spontini, Johan Halvorsen, Cole Porter, and Johann Mattheson.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Max Steiner ranks 47. Before him are Georges Bernanos, Oskar Schlemmer, Katherine Mansfield, Ernst Heinkel, Irving Berlin, and Fritz Klein. After him are W. O. Bentley, John Foster Dulles, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Abul Kalam Azad, August Kubizek, and Inayatullah Khan. Among people deceased in 1971, Max Steiner ranks 34. Before him are Wendell Meredith Stanley, Jacobo Árbenz, Diane Arbus, Pier Angeli, Violet Jessop, and Johannes Frießner. After him are W. O. Bentley, Bernardo Houssay, Mathilde Kschessinska, Edie Sedgwick, Roy O. Disney, and Raoul Hausmann.

Others Born in 1888

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1971

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Max Steiner ranks 261 out of 1,237. Before him are Koloman Moser (1868), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Karl Silberbauer (1911), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), and Katharina Schratt (1853). After him are Max Perutz (1914), Thomas Klestil (1932), Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (1534), Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705), Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711), and Paul Watzlawick (1921).

Others born in Austria

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Max Steiner ranks 25. Before him are Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), and Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800). After him are Joseph Lanner (1801), Clemens Krauss (1893), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), Johann Joseph Fux (1660), Oscar Straus (1870), and Robert Stolz (1880).

Austrian born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL