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Rózsa was introduced to film music in 1934 by his friend, the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger. Following a concert which featured their respective compositions, Honegger mentioned that he supplemented his income as a composer of film scores, including the film Les Misérables (1934).
Jul 22, 2020 · Konstantinos Sotiropoulos writes, Rózsa was asked by Selznick to compose the music for one test sequence using the theremin. This was the famous scene in which Gregory Peck, as an amnesiac with guilt complex, takes a straight razor to the room where Ingrid Bergman, his psychiatrist, is sleeping.
Dec 1, 2001 · 1979: Rózsa’s last major work for orchestra was the intense, dark-colored Viola Concerto, composed for Pinchas Zukerman and recorded by Paul Silverthorne, James Sedares, and the New Zealand Symphony (Koch 3-7304-2H1).
Jul 27, 1995 · In a career that spanned over fifty years, he composed music for nearly 100 films, including Spellbound (1945), Quo Vadis (1951), Ben-Hur (1959), and King of Kings (1961). Rózsa is one of the most nominated composers in Oscar history: he had 16 nominations and three Oscars.
Jul 27, 1995 · Rózsa was a child prodigy and studied the violin from the age of five and went to Leipzig to study music at the Leipzig Conservatory with Hermann Grabner in 1926. While living in Paris from 1931 and then in London from 1935, he was commissioned by Alexander Korda to write the score for film Knight Without Armour (1937).
Aug 5, 2007 · “Rózsa was one of those guys who was a substantial composer,” echoes film composer Bruce Broughton (“Silverado”). “When he went into film music, apparently he used as much invention as he...
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One of the most striking characteristics of Rózsa's film music is that, like his concert music, it is deeply rooted in the composer's Hungarian soil and breathes some decidedly Hungarian air that cannot be mistaken. Rózsa rarely attempts 'cheap' imitation of exoticism and chooses to remain himself.
