A Hollywood Unsung

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Max Steiner was considered the "father of film music" His epic score to King Kong for RKO in 1933 was over 60 minutes of original material and he used a fairly large orchestra. While there had been other soundtracks a lot of it was material such as Swan Lake in Dracula etc. There was even a small amount of original material but it was this soundtrack that got it started.

The early major players in Hollywood were Steiner, Waxman, Newman, Tiomkin, Korngold, and Herrmann. Korngold who scored for Warner Brothers did the swashbuckling material while Steiner did a lot of work for Davis and Bogart.