Maximilian Steiner (August 28, 1839 - May 29, 1880) was an Austrian actor and theater manager. Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1839 ( MDCCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one
Steiner was manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien from 1869 to 1875 with Marie Geistinger, a Viennese actress, and from 1875 to 1880 on his own. The Theater an der Wien (The Theatre on the Wien River is a Theatre in Vienna. During this period, he is said to have discovered Johann Strauss, and encouraged Jacques Offenbach to drop a lucrative conducting career to write his first operetta. Johann Strauss is the name of three famous Austrian composers Johann Strauss I (1804-1849 or Johann Strauss Sr Jacques Offenbach (born Jacob Offenbach 20 June 1819 in Cologne &ndash 5 October 1880 in Paris) was a German Operetta is a genre of light Opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter [1] Steiner gradually phased out spoken-word dramas from the Theater program, contributing to the Viennese opera boom. [2]
Steiner was born in Ofen, near Budapest in Hungary, and died in Baden, Lower Austria. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Baden is a Spa town and medieval city in Lower Austria, Austria, 26 kilometres south of Vienna, with a population of 25207 (2005 Lower Austria (Niederösterreich is one of the nine states or Bundesländer in Austria. He had two sons: Franz Steiner, who took over his function in 1880 and remained until 1884; and Gabor Steiner, who also became a theatre manager and operator of a music hall. Music hall is a form of British theatrical Entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960 He was grandfather of Max Steiner, a Hollywood film composer. This article is about the film composer For other persons with the same name see Max Steiner. A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film