Max Urban (composer) explained

Max Urban
Birth Date:	1882
Birth Place:	German Empire
Death Date:	1949
Death Place:	Mexico
Occupation:	Composer
Yearsactive:	1933–1949 (film)

Max Urban (1882–1949) was a German-born Mexican composer active in the Mexican Film Industry during its Golden Age. He began his career writing music for radio but his popularity grew when he began composing film scores for films.^[1] He was one of a number of foreign-born figures active in Mexican cinema.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Sanctuary (1933)
• Gold and Silver (1934)
• Cruz Diablo (1934)
• El fantasma del convento (1934)
• El vuelo de la muerte (1934)
• The Woman of the Port (1934)
• Horse for Horse (1939)
• In the Times of Don Porfirio (1939)
• Every Madman to His Specialty (1939)
• La selva de fuego (1945)
• Gangster's Kingdom (1948)

Bibliography

• Avila, Jacqueline. Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro. Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Brill, Olaf (ed.) Expressionism in the Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
• Poppe, Nicolas. Alton's Paradox: Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Cinema in Latin America. State University of New York Press, 2021.

Notes and References

1. Avila p.82
2. Poppe