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Max Steiner, an Uncommon card
Maximilian Raoul Steiner was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's greatest musical composers.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 170
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 64,000
Power 170 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Max Steiner quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Max Steiner card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Threatened with internment in England during World War I, he fled to Broadway, and in ____ he moved to Hollywood, where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films.
Answer
1920s. Threatened with internment in England during World War I, he fled to Broadway, and in 1929 he moved to Hollywood, where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. From the Max Steiner article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Chamber music. Chamber music 85 · Max Steiner 81 · Botanical garden 78 · Bridget Riley 75 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Steiner was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, proficient at composing, arranging, and conducting, by the time he was fifteen.
- Threatened with internment in England during World War I, he fled to Broadway, and in 1929 he moved to Hollywood, where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films.
- He is often referred to as "the father of film music", as Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films, along with composers Dimitri Tiomkin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, and Miklós Rózsa.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Max Steiner article was read about 64,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Max Steiner
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Oleg TinkovUncommon · Society · ATK 81 DEF 89
- H.D.Uncommon · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 93
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Max Steiner (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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