Symphonie Moderne for the film Four Wives 1939
Historic Music
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8m 27s
Max Steiner was the father of film music as we know it. This item is particularly for my father, who became a devotee of cinematic scoring long before it was fashionable, especially the music of Max. These three pictures offer a good cross-section of his work; he also scored such disparate classics as King Kong, Gone With the Wind and Casablanca. Steiner had high hopes for this recording, but it didn’t sell well at the time and has since become something of a collectors’ item. It wasn’t until the 1970s and 1980s that his music began to receive the kind of attention and study that it deserves.
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