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Days after leaving Selznick, Steiner became the highest-paid staff composer at Warner Bros. It was a deal he was quietly arranging before leaving Selznick, detailed here for the first time. Steiner would spend most of the next three decades at Warners. This chapter provides a detailed examination of the studio’s music department, and explains why its infrastructure, staff, and varied creative content were ideally suited to Steiner’s talents. The chapter describes his friendly if competitive relationship with Warner Bros.’ favorite freelance composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Steiner works discussed include the Best Picture–winning Life of Emile Zola, the start of his long collaboration with Bette Davis, and his iconic Warner Bros. fanfare. The chapter also chronicles the unexpected death of Steiner’s mother in Vienna, and Max’s frantic—and ultimately successful—efforts to bring his father to America, after Hitler’s annexation of Austria.
离开塞尔兹尼克几天后,斯坦纳成为华纳兄弟收入最高的员工作曲家。这是他在离开塞尔兹尼克之前悄悄安排的一笔交易,这里首次详细介绍。斯坦纳在华纳度过了接下来30年的大部分时间。本章详细介绍了工作室的音乐部门,并解释了为什么它的基础设施、员工和各种创意内容非常适合斯坦纳的才能。这一章描述了他与华纳兄弟最喜欢的自由作曲家埃里希·沃尔夫冈·科恩戈尔德(Erich Wolfgang Korngold)友好而又竞争的关系。讨论的斯坦纳作品包括获得最佳影片奖的《埃米尔左拉的一生》,他与贝蒂戴维斯长期合作的开始,以及他标志性的华纳兄弟宣传。这一章还记载了施泰纳的母亲在维也纳的意外死亡,以及希特勒吞并奥地利后,马克斯疯狂地(最终成功地)把父亲带到美国的努力。