Many composers from Europe arrived to USA in the 1930s persecuted for their political or religious thought. They had a deep training in composition, orchestration and conducting with high levels of knowledge in the music of the 18th and 19th centuries specially opera, symphonic and chamber music.
Men as Max Steiner, Enrich Korngold from Austria, Miklos Rozsa from Hungary, Branislav Kaper from Poland and Franz Waxman from Germany are great examples of composers that emigrated to America and contributed to establish an industry that was constantly expanding and they helped to arrived to its "Golden Age" (1930-1950).
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| Max Steiner |
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| Erich Korngold |
This contribution was, in my opinion determinant to develop a film score language that became the hallmark of Hollywood and that is the base of all we have and enjoy now. I think the knowledge and expertise that these men had in the dramatic path of opera was very important to establish the creative canon and criterion that composers follow today in order to write an appropriate score to a film production.
The way these Masters composed, orchestrated, conducted became the standard of the industry and was imitated and enriched by the next generations of composers.
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| Miklos Rosza |
A lot of compositing techniques and styles have been added to the film scoring language from these years until now, but we have to recognize that these Masters have a great place in the Olympus of film composers.
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| Franz Waxman |
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| Branislaw Kaper |
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