Max Steiner - Greatest Hits

[wouldbestar]

Okay, where is Dodge City/San Antonio?  This one was so good they used it in two hit movies.

[matanzas1246]

what is the name of the music theme end of the caine mutiny, please? serge

[gunnarnizzler]

thank you!



[BalletBabyBoy]

I want the score to Tovarich...wonderful music!

[jscottupton]

King Kong was his breakthrough gig. While he was composing it...he thought it was no good. Luckily, he was wrong. It made the movie.

[AncientAncestor]

Not trying to be mean, but you missed the date on "The Charge of the Light Brigade." It's 1938, not 1936

[rosten736]

The Most Dangerous Game almost sounds like Chopin. Had not heard before. A bit surprised you didn't have A Summer Place - has to be one of his most famous.

[neptunisregis11]

Thank you Max Steiner!!!!

[lolwut71]

passage to Mersaile is my favorite the opening WB flourish right into the theme..its brilliant

[Glinkaism1]

@lolwut71 Yeah! I like it to. Very adventuous sounding. And I really like The Caine Mutiny March. I tried to read the book by Herman Wouk. It reeeeally dragged. So, the movie was awesome! :)

[curlyman217]

what about johnny belinda!!

[cheesehoven]

Great selection. I particularly enjoyed She, Don Juan and the Most dangerous Game.

[gf1001]

FANTASTIC steiner was Brill thank you so enjoyed this.

[mxylpx]

Beautifully done! One of my all time favorite composers.  Thank you so much. Any Waxman?

[Obiwan198]

where are micmacs?????

[luifesall]

Thank you too much for this music collection

[PANDOSING]

i remember growing up in New York City before CBS had a late night talk show they aired movies. After the final movie, which went off at 4 A.M. or so the station which play this music. This score was famous well before anyone knew it was the music to "Gone with the Wind"

[lorrainewands]

Howdy! I am so grateful that there are others out there who appreciate the great music of the silver (and techincolor) screen! Have you done a montage of Alfred Newman's music??? He is my favorite!

[MartinGilmour]

awesome

[orwelldickens]

Great video benydebney and wonderful tribute to Max Steiner. Congratulations, please keep up the good work and thank you very much.

[MrDigger1969]

to the guy seven months ago you're not weird you just have taste, every era in movies has its classics you are lucky to have discovered them early in life.

[MagnusRulerHardt]

Not better than Hans Zimmer.

[kru1552]

warner bros. picture fanfare is very good.

[54Lily]

WHOOOOO !! HOOOO! What a delite ! Thanks

[astralagosto]

Max.........one of the greatest film composers of all time.......if not the best. Thank you for the scores of Jezebel, The Flame and the Arrow, Now Voyager, and Casablanca. Your tenure at RKO from 1929 - 1935 was one of the best for that studio. Your scores for Little Women, Stingaree, Christopher Strong, and Sweepings were the best of the studio. RKO lost something when you left the studio in 1935. The music in their films was not as exciting anymore.

[themantam]

When I heard "She", I was getting ready to hide the family.......thank heavens "Now Voyager" then started to play and soothed my jangled nerves.

Great range of unforgettable music.

[TatarInExile]

After so many years, this music still resonates.

You were The MAX, dude!!!

[greenwoodtea]

The music to Charge of the light Brigade is the best of this collection----stunning final scene and stunning music...for all time........and Casablanca..Gone with the wind..also classic....Max Steiner---genuis..

[wilsondylanmccartney]

Some others I liked from Max Steiner were Little Women, A Star Is Born, Angels With Dirty Faces, Jezebel, The Letter, Sergeant York, Arsenic And Old Lace, Mildred Pierce, The Big Sleep, Life With Father, Johnny Belinda, Key Largo, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, White Heat, The Searchers and A Summer Place.

[n1950m]

Thank you for this video. Brings back memories of great films and the great music of the master. Max Steiner and Warner Brothers were a great team.

[boy18inva]

I'm just 18 but I find myself liking these movies of the 30's, 40's and fifties more and more. I saw Casablanca on CD the other night and really got into it. Is this wierd of me or something?

[enteveros1981]

definitely not - I am 28 and my brother 22 and we love the old 30s, 40s movies and music - its called respect for class! You have good taste!

[TatarInExile]

@boy18inva Nah, not weird at all; just shows you have good taste.

[mxylpx]

@boy18inva Naw..it shows you've got class and a first rate brain!

[Court74]

@boy18inva No! it is unique toungue your eyes have....cherish it!

[daughterrevolution]

@boy18inva No it's not weird at all. These movies are timeless and will find new audiences in every new generation. I bet people will still be watching Casablanca 100 years from now when most films that are coming out today by Hollywood are long forgotten.

[VIVICANAL4]

@boy18inva YOU ARE RIGHT . THOSE MOVIES AND MUSIC ARE WONDERFUL AND ETERNAL. GREETINS FROM BRAZIL.

[Pokernatics]

OMG, this Music (6:08) is from him?? GENIUS!

[Emma2968]

now voyager - timeless, the music is legendary

[kostgian]

genious ...master of 20 century....

[mrmalbec]

Oops - forgot "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

[mrmalbec]

Two scores no one mentioned I particularly like "The Letter" and "Mildred Pierce"

[Prilpril21]

could you, if possible, send me the score of Now, Voyager?

[Tilgitt]

Now, Voyager is on my top 10 greatest film scores of all time! Beautiful! Simply beautiful!

[BourneArgonaut]

I love Steiner's work. But how could you omit *The Fountainhead*. (And hunchbacked has already mentioned the absence of *A Summer Place*...)

[zwayd]

does anyone know the name of that chicken tone in (Gone with the Wind) and the (tom and jerry ) cartoons ?

[hunchbacked]

Good work, but where is the theme of "a summer place"?

How could you miss this one?

[9012255762]

Well Done! I enjoyed it very much. I believe you might like the soundtrack from cutthroat island

very similar style to Max Steiners.

[mysticmrsam]

Max was also nominated for an oscar of his musical score in Sergent York from 1941....that, and his beautiful variaitions of Rhetts theme from Gone With The Wind are my favorites!

[sepod]

Max Steiner received 26 Academy Award nominations for his work and won three Oscars, for The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944).

Steiner died of congestive heart failure in Hollywood. He is entombed in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. After his death, Charles Gerhardt conducted the National Philharmonic Orchestra in an RCA Victor album of highlights from Steiner's career, titled Now Voyager.

[sepod]

Steiner scored hundreds of Hollywood films, and was the most prominent composer in the music department at Warner Bros., where he wrote the famous fanfare that introduced most of the studio's films from 1937 through the early 1950s. Steiner continued to score Warner films until the mid 1960s; he usually worked with orchestrator Murray Cutter. His final original film score was the 1965 film Two on a Guillotine. He also wrote music for several of the television series produced by Warner Brothers.

[sepod]

Steiner worked in New York for eleven years as a musical director, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor of Broadway operettas and musicals written by Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, and George Gershwin, among others. His credits included George White's Scandals 1922 Lady, Be Good 1924, and Rosalie 1928. In 1929, Steiner went to Hollywood to orchestrate the European film version of the Florenz Ziegfield show Rio Rita for RKO. The score for King Kong 1933 made Steiner's reputation.

[sepod]

Steiner's Godfather was the Great composer Richard Strauss. A child prodigy in composing, Steiner received piano instruction from Johannes Brahms and, at the age of sixteen, enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Music (now known as the University of Music and Performing Arts), where he was taught by Gustav Mahler among others. His musical aptitudes enabled him to complete the school's four-year program in only two.

[spartybob1]

thanks, I love the soundtracks from the Big Sleep, the Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca. hard to believe he did Gone with the wind and so many others

[4Topwood]

>"I love the soundtracks from the Big Sleep, the Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca."

So do I but Adolph Deutsch, not Max Steiner, wrote the score for The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Steiner was not only an amazing composer but he excelled at incorporating folk and popular songs into his scores (such as "Lorena" in The Searchers").

Now I'm choking up hearing his beautiful music for Now, Voyager.

[henryst1]

Some great film scores found here, some not-so-great. One of my favorite Steiner scores is "Springfield Rifle" with Gary Cooper in 1952. Get the VHS or DVD and listen to it. Very evocative of the Civil War era. And pay your respects to Max in the Great Mausoleum of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

[713davidh42]

Thanks for posting this and simular videos. You are obviously a fan of movies in general and of film scores in particular. Btw, the posters are neat, too.

[0021Feniks]

Very good video :))

[cinemabon]

Max Steiner, who did some of his best work at Warners, often scored Bette Davis' pictures. Once when Wyler had Davis going up a staircase for the umpteenth time, she turned on the director and declared, "Am I going up these stairs or is Max f...ing Steiner!" Thanks for the wonderful tribute to a great Hollywood film composer.

[1204944]

Ho pubblicato "Vento caldo" di Steiner. A quale film si riferisce ? Grazie.

[5291970]

he also did "The Corn is Green" starring Bette Davis, another awesome Bette performance!

[10278081]

Wish I could get the charge of the light brigade track. Excellent music.

[1940spianoman]

DON JUAN RULES! But you left out something...MIDRED PIERCE!

[ChuspiWilder]

A second part, please!!

[billyguns2]

NOW, VOYAGER rules!

[rubisco1981]

what is the opening piece?

[NGS712]

rubisco: I believe it's the old Warner Bros. theme. They usually played it before every movie over the logo.

[avatarnarutochuck]

and is also composed by Steiner

[Prilpril21]

where'd you get this?

[benydebney]

I made it.

[Prilpril21]

No, I mean the music? Where'd you get it to make such a wonderful medley?

Nice work, btw. It made me cry a little during the Casablanca theme

[bobszvetics1]

GREAT JOB THANKS MAX WAS THE FIRST AND BEST 

[SashaRancic]

@benydebney And you've made it damn well, every single one of them. Cheers mate and thank you!

[colpo100]

Thank´s a lot!

[colpo100]

Could you tell me, whats the name of the last track you used in this movie from "Gone with the wind"?

Thanks a lot.

[benydebney]

It's from the RCA Victor recording, Charles Gerhard conducting the National Philarmonic Orchestra.

[tdalaska]

@colpo100 It's "Tara's Theme" I believe.

[shanghaibenny2]

Thanks. A genuine treasure trove.

[debabe7]

Max Steiner is one of my favourite film composers: Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Now Voyager, what a legacy! However, if he is the father of the film score, then Erich Wolfgang Korngold is the grandfather. Thank you for all your posts. Viva film scores!

[gf1001]

FANTASTIC what a legand. thank you for this a great man and his music, MAX STEINER YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER. DELIGHFUL AND LONG OVERDUE A COLLECTION OF YOUR FINEST WORK.

[charliemctruth]

magical........