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Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian: [ˈmikloːʃ ˈroːʒɒ]; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) 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.
Miklós Rósza: Hollywood Spectacular by Rainer Padberg, Miklós Rózsa released in 1992. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
While writing the score for The Thief of Bagdad (1940), Rózsa relocated to Hollywood where he remained gainfully employed over the next four decades. An expert at orchestration and counterpoint with a great flair for the dramatic, he often concentrated on the psychological aspects of a film.
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Dec 1, 2001 · By his own reckoning, the first film in which Rózsa broke decisively with Hollywood’s prevailing musical blandness was Double Indemnity (1944), in which the director Billy Wilder, working in collaboration with the mystery novelist-screenwriter Raymond Chandler, laid the groundwork for the disillusioned, morally equivocal style of moviemaking ...
Jun 1, 2022 · I thought maybe sitting in the presence of their ghosts would help me write about the film’s score by Miklós Rózsa—a dance of death and fatalism that helped codify an entire genre. Rózsa was the musical counterpart to Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain, the film’s writers, and Double Indemnity the ur–noir score.
Miklós Rózsa, an intellect and a gentleman of the old school, was an artist with an enormous contribution to the art of film music. His music has been both light in tone and heavily dramatic in feeling, and he was one of very few film composers highly regarded enough to be accepted to the classical stage as well as in the motion picture studio.
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Apr 28, 2023 · Tags: Academy Awards Alexander Korda Ben-Hur film score hollywood Hungarian Hollywood Council mgm Miklós Rózsa Oscars. Having composed almost 100 film scores earning him 17 Oscar nominations, Rózsa carved his place out in film history as one of the most famous composers of all time.
