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Determined to become a composer, he transferred to the Leipzig Conservatory the following year. There he studied composition with Hermann Grabner, successor to Max Reger. He also studied choral music with (and later assisted) Karl Straube at the Thomaskirche, where Johann Sebastian Bach had once been the kapellmeister. Rózsa emerged from these ...
This was to be his first step in entering the more lucrative field of film composition. In 1935, Rózsa went to London after being invited by the Hungarian Legation to write the music for a ballet.
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- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
In 1928 he signed a contract with music publishers Breitkopf and Hartel for his symphonic and chamber music, and three years later his music met concert success in Paris, and before long his reputation as a classical composer was well established.
Rózsa, Mikiós. ( b. 18 April 1907 in Budapest, Hungary; d. 27 July 1995 in Los Angeles, California), composer whose urgently exotic music enriched the concerto literature and the soundtracks of such films as The Thief of Bagdad, Double Indemnity, Spellbound, and Ben-Hur (1959).
Dec 1, 2001 · His first important large-scale composition, the String Trio, Op. 1, was premiered in 1927 and published shortly thereafter by the prestigious Leipzig firm of Breitkopf & Härtel. Rózsa received a thorough grounding in the Austro-German musical tradition, but his own sympathies were considerably more wide-ranging than those of his teachers.
Career: Composer from 1915; composer of orchestra works; 1932–35—lived in Paris, and in London, 1935–40; 1937—first film score, for Knight without Armour ; 1940—settled in Hollywood; contracts with Paramount and MGM; 1945—Professor of Composition, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Jul 28, 1995 · Advertisement. “You don’t decide to be a composer,” Rozsa told The Times in 1960. “You must have the inborn talent, plus a 100% urge to compose.” He was so motivated to compose that he thwarted...
