Soundtracks From The Greats: Max Steiner – Music from Gone With The Wind

Our ‘Soundtracks From The Greats’ series brings you iconic film music from some of history’s great film composers. Whatever your film taste, our series is sure to cater to you, with memorable film scores from some of the past century’s seminal movies.

The soundtrack for Gone with the Wind was one of its many Oscar nominations, which won ten of them. Composed by Max Steiner, the music captures the depiction of the epic romance tale set in the American south against the backdrop of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. This 1939 release adapted from Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer winning novel stars Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh as the two turbulent lovers caught up in the controversial historical context of this film.