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Jul 22, 2020 · Paramount’s music director was furious, but Rózsa enjoyed the support of the director Billy Wilder, and the music remained as Rózsa wanted. In a 1977 interview with Robert Porfirio, Rózsa stressed his autonomy: I was never at home in the studio. The so-called Hollywood people and I didn’t talk the same language, I admit.
Miklós Rózsa (often misspelt as Rosza) was born in Budapest on April 18, 1907. His father was a well-to-do land-owning industrialist with a liberal outlook, and the boy grew up in an atmosphere of comfort, culture, and affection. Town life appealed little to young Miklós, especially when set against the manifold attractions of the family's ...
Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian: [ˈmikloːʃ ˈroːʒɒ]; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) [1] was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953 onward. [2] Best known for his nearly ...
Dec 1, 2001 · 1933: The Theme, Variations, and Finale was performed by James Sedares and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as part of a series of CD’s devoted to Rózsa’s complete orchestral music. According to Rózsa, who heard a tape two years before his death, “the orchestral playing combines passion with discipline in exactly the way my music ...
1976 interview with Rózsa by Derek Elley from Films and Filming. 1978 interview with Rózsa from the Seattle Times. 1980 interview with Rózsa from French Première magazine. 1982 interview with Rózsa from French-Canadian publication 24 Images. 1984 PBS program where Elwy Yost interviews film music composers, including Rózsa.
Jun 1, 2022 · Rózsa became best known for epics—sprawling odysseys to other cultures, from the ancient Rome of Quo Vadis (1951) and Ben-Hur (1959) and King of Kings (1961), to the ancient Spain of El Cid (1961). These inspired equally grand, tuneful scores that fused a romantic Hollywood symphony with folk instruments from the time and place of each story, which the composer reveled in researching.
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Jul 28, 1995 · July 28, 1995 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Miklos Rozsa, an Academy Award-winning composer who used symphonic sound to illustrate a progression of Oriental dramas, psychological tales, gangster ...
