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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 ...
Jul 27, 1995 · Miklós Rózsa or Miklos Rozsa (18 April 1907 – 27 July 1995) was a Hungarian-born composer and conductor, best known for his numerous film scores. Along with such composers as Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman, Rózsa is considered to be one of the "founding fathers of film music.
Jul 22, 2020 · The Four Feathers (1939) This British Technicolor adventure film, directed by Zoltan Korda, is one of Rózsa’s earliest scores. Chronicling British military adventures in Africa during the reign of Queen Victoria, the story revolves around a man who is accused of cowardice after resigning on the eve of his regiment’s departure.
Dec 1, 2001 · The Double Life of Miklos Rozsa. A major composer, long dismissed as a Hollywood sellout, may finally be coming into his own. Far more people have heard the music of Miklós Rózsa than that of his countryman and fellow modernist Béla Bartók, but far fewer know his name. For more than four decades, Rózsa divided his time between writing ...
Jun 1, 2022 · Likewise, Rózsa abandoned his native Hungary and had a brush with Hitler’s Germany when he was a young composer working in Europe. After writing concert music and a few film scores in London, he arrived in Los Angeles in 1940 expecting “some sort of Sin City, a California Babylon,” as he wrote in his 1982 memoir, Double Life.
With all the film and music lovers who are moved by hearing the music of Miklós Rózsa, I would like here to pay him a vibrant tribute on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, April 18, 1982. When you wrote your first film score, Knight Without Armour , what was your relationship like with [its director] Jacques Feyder?
Miklós Rózsa. Music Department: Ben-Hur. A child prodigy, Miklos Rózsa learned to play the violin at the age of five and read music before he was able to read words. In 1926, he began studying at the Leipzig Conservatory where he was considered a brilliant student. He obtained his doctorate in music in 1930. Moving to Paris the following year, Rózsa had much of his own chamber music ...
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