Gone With The Wind | Soundtrack Suite (Max Steiner) 

"Do not squander time. That is the stuff life is made of."

“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".

And now the last one has sadly departed from this classic, RIP Olivia De Havviland. From a time when Actors were real Actors.

Max Steiner was a genius! A wonderful composer and conductor.

"The Death of Melanie" is just so sad. You immediately feel the sadness although you can't see their tears.

The portion where Dixie blends in is so sad and sentimental. 3:20. Beautifully scored.

Still gives me goosebumps. Sat in a movie theater in 1980 watching this again, in labor. Refused to leave until the movie was over.

What a grand opening theme song for such a grand movie! Here in Mercer County, Pennsylvania we have a restaurant named TARA. It's a pre-Civil War mansion, totally dedicated to this movie and loaded with things that came from the movie along with artifacts of the Civil War period. All the many dining rooms are even named after the film's characters.

I think it's the best, evergreen cinema in the world. Dazzling direction, Vivien Leigh's dazzling performance. Steiner's music is uplifting and thought-provoking. There was a time when I watched it every night for 3 months.

How do these great composers come up with such truly inspiring and great themes

One of the best movies ever made. And one of the absolute best scores of any kind ❤️❤️💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

I can visualize every scene with the change of the music :)

Anyone love how the motif for Tara's theme reappears in the finale? I think it's really amazing.

STEINER IS ONE OF THE GREATEST COMPOSERS OF ALL TIMES AND THIS IS THE PINNACLE OF FILM SCORE HISTORY.

The best movie of all time! Best actors, music, etc.

I don't recall how many times I've watched this movie; but I'm sure I'll watch it again.

What a star filled cast! Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland!

I consider myself a nerd of sci-fi and fantasy, but I also love great Hollywood classics like Gone With the Wind and Casablanca. When I think that this movie is older than my grandparents... :O I feel so much respect that I almost fear it!

True music, true art, true history. Wonderful artists....

I can never listen to this without shedding a tear

"Gone with the Wind" by Max Steiner Named by the American Film Institute as the second greatest film score of all time, right behind John William's Oscar-winning score of 1977's "Star Wars". This film really broke the barrier of what film scores could be in the future, and Max broke that boundary the moment Tara's theme comes up, plus adding elements of Civil War songs into the score, like "Dixie" and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and the brilliant spine-tingling brass in the "escaping Altanta" sequence. Epic, mind-blowing, and up there with the great works of Beethoven and Mozart. "Gone with the Wind" has without a doubt one the greatest soundtracks ever conceived by a film score composer.

I'm from Argentina, so sorry if I make mistakes. But I'm a GREAT GWTW fan since I was 14. This film changes my life for the better since I began to study & search everything about History & Arts from the very moment I first saw it. Now I'm a teacher in a High School in Arts, thanks to GWTW- Thank u Fred for this present for me!!- I had suscribed to your channel. GWTW music is magnificent in every sense of the word, pure magic & sentiment. An Epìc Score, a timeless one!!.

28 and even I don't think they make films and music like this anymore, and it is a damned shame. God, how I miss these films.

This gives me the chills. I love GWTW!

This score transports me to another place. I love all of Mr Steiner's scores but this is the best. If ever a posthumous Oscar should be awarded it should be for this. He was a genius.

the PERFECT score for a PERFECT film- Period.

Great balls of fire! C'est le plus grand film de tous les temps... et la plus belle sound track too.

i love that the pictures of the sheet music are presented like the opening credits to old films such as this

The Godfather of film scores. Williams, Barry, Horner, Elfman, whomever. They all owe it to the brilliance of Max Steiner. And this was Steiner's best.

Die beste Filmmusik vor dem zweiten Weltkrieg voller schönen und unvergesslichen Melodien. Echt wunderbar!

The father of musical SCORES. BEAUTIFUL INTEGRAL MUSIC.

1939: probably the single greatest year for moviemaking, with this one leading the pack. Max Steiner all but invented how to compose and conduct movie music. All of his methods are still in use today, starting from "King Kong" in 1933. Steiner started work for this while still at RKO, where he met and worked for David O. Selznick, who had purchased the rights for Margaret Mitchell's book. Selznick was able to 'borrow' him for this one from Warners, and Steiner had a clause in his contract letting him work for Selznick on request. It took him so long to prepare it (you try to write three-plus hours of music on your time off) that Selznick had to use bits of it, along with music from others of his films, for preview screenings of "GWTW". The soundtrack was reportedly the last element added before final prints were made and sent to Atlanta. It captures and updates the music of that era, incorporating his own themes and classics of that era, recalling that 'civilization, gone with the wind'. And he got robbed for the '39 Oscar by "The Wizard of Oz" and Herbert Stothart.

It's almost been 3 months since I watched this film, and I can't stop humming or whistling the theme.

Six years before Gone with the Wind Max Steiner composed the excellent score to the original King Kong!

Love the movie Love the soundtrack Best movie ever

Great composer!

My favorite movie of all time. I love to spend my Birthday quietly watching this movie even though I don't get to do it that often. Nothing is better. Ruby

I love the theme music to gone with the wind so much I'm having it at my funeral...

I love these soundtrack suites. It's like having a three hours long epic film condensed to 15 minutes.

Brilliant piece of music - like the film a true classic- cherished by millions

My favorite book. My favorite movie. My favorite main character. Perfection in absolutely everything!!! 😍😍😍😍

This music always makes me so nostalgic, it's such a good movie!

Wow, I didn't know Max Steiner composed and conducted this great song. Good to know!

Thanks for uploading it. Gone with the wind is one of my fav films. Always listen to this soundtrack whenever I feel dispirited and melancholy. As Scarlett hv said “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

One of the best movie scores on record. I don't know why those day of analog music sound better than these new age crispy clean digital music

The great movie of all time and a warning of what was and has come to pass.

I sleep when this piece of music is on, as if I can be taken back to the 90s when all was well.

This theme totally describes the books and movies. The charactors and the events.

I studied with Harold E Mitchell who played First Trumpet in Gone With the Wind. Max Steiner wrote the Score in Two weeks, that’s right Two weeks! After that Warner Brothers made Max the Head of the whole music department! From MGM to WB’s He took Harold E Mitchell with him to Warner Brothers! What a team!

I actually saw this first at a drive-in (!) in 1963, in spread-out 55-millimeter, on an old print. Liked the movie, but of course, that outdoor speaker was terrible. Finally saw it in a single-screen theatre in the early 80's, on a better print and with full audio. Warners has restored this back to the original 35mm and cleaned up the sound and Technicolor.

Max Steiner es un compositor increíble, aquí escuchamos a una de sus obras más llena de lirismo, emoción, y reconocibles. Me encanta.

One of my all time favorites.❤❤❤❤

Je suis toujours admiratif de vos compilations de thèmes qui s'enchaînent avec beaucoup de limpidité . Dans le cas d' "Autan en emporte le vent " on retrouve avec émotion tous les thèmes qui jalonnent ce film inoubliable. Bravo pour le résultat et continuez à nous faire revivre nos émotions de jeunesse.

So classical and enigmatic. You can hear how current and contemporary it is despite it has been decades 7:33

How much I love this score !!!!!!!!- Max Steiner was one of the best... IF not the best composer of all time!!!!!- Every one of GWTW scenes has the perfect music, and remember Mr Steiner had only four weeks to compose 4 hours of original music !!!!!

It's very hard to believe that Hollywood was able to make such an wonderful epic film way back in 1939.

Watching Gone with the wind changed my life overnight. The score is utterly transcendent.

Such a timeless classic that’s still one of the best moves decades later….#SouthernBell..#Georgia..#GRITS 🎬🎥🍿📽📼📀🎬🎥🍿📽📼

there's a lot of raw energy but also nostalgia in this that reminds me of Rhett and Scarlett, and of the South at that time. very fitting.

What a great movie that portrayed a part of American history so perfected. Vivien Leigh was so beautiful and Clark Gable, the perfect Rhett Butler.

The perfect combination of Genius & Heart. His Scores of the Bette Davis films are my personal favorites - The Letter, Jezebel, Now Voyager, All This and Heaven Too, and on and on and on!

This soundtrack is for me one of the best in the world with Steel of Magnolias and The Thorn Birds! ❤️❤️❤️It’s pure harmony for heart, soul and spirit!

What A great Movie and Sound Track Thanks to All that had A Part !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely breathtaking.

Of course, Steiner did not score 4 hours of music for the film, only the parts that required it.But he was a quick composer, and I believe he worked just as feverishly on Kong. Remarkable that an Austrian immigrant could capture such pastoral and "Southern" feeling music so well for this work!

Today's "music" doesn't come within 10,000 light-years of Steiner's music.That chord progression leading to the statement of the Tara theme while the title is shown on the screen always moves me to tears. I am very interested in chord progressions, and imho, that particular one is the greatest progression ever committed to staff paper. Steiner was a genius; there's no denying that statement!

Still amazing movie after a long time

Makes me cry! Beautiful!! I love the South!!!

Lejos la mejor pelicula de todos los tiempos y su maravillosos temas lo mejor

Such beautiful music. Reminds me of the very first time I saw Gone with the Wind, which was at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. Us all standing in line FREEZING with our little white leotards on and patent leather shoes. I pretty much was too young to understand much of the movie, but the part where she was whipping that poor exhausted horse and it died? I started crying out loud and everyone looked at me! I would have said "That bitch!" if I knew that word then! Mom and sisters were comforting me... and that's all I remember from the first time I saw GWTW. Now I like it much better, but I do overt my eyes for the horse "killing" scene...sniff!

As many who testimony here, GWTW was a dear to my heart soundtrack ! I saw the movie in 1970 with my parents when I was but 12. I puchased the then available OST on LP (a badly retreated sound whith artificial stereo effect made in France) when I was14. Then only few reels were released on record. I puchased many re-recording of the Steiner's concert suite of his score on LP, the RCA Charles Gerhardt in 1976 (1973 release), the 1961 Muir Mathieson, still on LP ; then in the 80's the short suite on Decca CD arranged and conducted by Stanley Black. And I had to wait my 50's to have the Rhino 2CD conplete sountrack recording ! But this recording is the apotheosis for the Steiner's masterpiece. Thank you Fred for this short 15 min. montage, it is well done. I was thrillled yesterday evening listening it. Congratulation for your work. Please go on ! For Sountracks and GWTW lovers, if you must purchase but one recording, buy this 2CD deluxe set Rhino Records, a must have ! Regards

This is the ORIGINAL and can't be beat. It was recorded in Mono. They have done re-makes of this in Stereo sound, but the original performance is superb. The re-makes cannot match the intensity of this piece and all the songs performed for the original Sound Track.

Its very sad that the wonderful Black actors in this super film were not allowed at the Academy Awards ceremony. Thank God things have changed a lot since 1939.

Love the soundtrack! Love the movie.

One of the finest work of Max Steiner followed by Casablanca(1942),starring Humphrey Bogart,Ingrid Bergman,Paul Hendried n British actor Claude Rains.Great by Max Steiner.

Max was amazing. But David O. Selznick’ s guidance and inspiration was equal to or even exceeding anyone’s contribution to this beautiful music!!!

We are fortunate in that when Max Steiner signed to work at the Warner Bros. Studio he could still compose this epic score for David O. Selznick's film. Rachel Paray (below) is right, this is Steiner's masterpiece.

Part 1 I was like oh my god please don't leave it at that ending, little didn't I know there was side 2......not much better...god that ending, so sad :( but such a great movie and score. I love 4:54 when she's at the bbq, that piece of music reminds me of the Oklahoma movie. But the whole score is amazing

Purr art...amazing ❤

Love this beautiful themeOnly Bose headphones&Cowin pro sounds exactly like the sound from the movieU can hear every instrunent

This film came out the year my father was born, he's been gone one year since June.

Very moving - thank you! :)

No question.....Some of the most exquisite music ever written in any musical form. Second to Star Wars? Really???

Yes, thanks and with the opening cymbal crash..wish they used in on more moder recordings of this.

Always thought that Max Steiner did a wonderful job with the music for this movie.

Nunca se hecho una pelicula como esta !ES UNICA!!!!!!!.

Brilliant and spine tingling

Another amazing suite from you. One of my all-time faves. Can't wait to see it again on the big screen next month (the new restoration is being released in cinemas in the UK)

Imagine,this movie is older than our grandparents, this movie is older than WW2, this movie is older than TV. There are people in this movie born in the 1800s, the last person to star in this movie died just last year. in 2020. Almost 100 years after the movie was filmed. And now we are listening to the great music of the movie on computers or phones in bed at 3 AM almost 100 years later. Im sure the people in this movie did not expect that .Time is incredible. Life is incredible. We are living through history.

Awesome score

Just re-watched for the umtenth time. Tribuet to Hattie McDaniel. God Bless her

surely a good mix of music and video to enhance the filming effect.

This song is a compliment for silent heroes - who dare to chase their dream.

This soundtrack is in a category by itself.

superb i love it so much !!!

I was laughing looking at the score pages the notes of Steiner : The South is dead, and so am I ! We musn't forget that the terrible amount of work this score needed ,lead him to use drugs to be efficient enough and dammage his health. Even if he was helped in some reels by other composers/ arrangers. Poor Max!

beautiful :')

Frankly my dear..... I don't give a damn about the dislikes ;)

It is so beautiful..!!!

Max Steiner and John Barry....GENIUSES BOTH.