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- 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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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.
- July 27, 1995 (aged 88), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- 1918–1989
- Composer, conductor
Jul 22, 2020 · Some music buffs look down on some composers just because they wrote film music. That is a total nonsense. Some of the great film composers like Miklos Rozsa, Erich Korngold, and Franz Waxman were great composers. In fact, both Rozsa and Korngold wrote some great works for the concert stage.
Dec 1, 2001 · In Double Life (1982), his wryly amusing autobiography, Rózsa describes a youthful career not greatly different from that of any other composer-in-the-making, though his start was somewhat slower. Born in Budapest in 1907, he began to play the violin at the age of five.
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.
In addition to winning three Oscars for his film work, Rózsa also continued as a prolific composer of classical music, including Violin and Piano Concertos, a Concerto for String Orchestra, a Sinfonia Concertante and Notturno Ungherese (influenced, respectively, by Stravinsky and Bartók).
- January 1, 1
- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
While Rózsa is rightfully famous for his film scores, he simultaneously crafted many music for the concert hall. Read more about his iconic compositions. We look at his wide-ranging compositional output.
Rózsa was a very talented composer of much more than film music, but his range in these works is somewhat limited in that it relies almost entirely on a pleasant, Hungarian-inflected modal melodic style akin to that which opens, say, Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, or the Divertimento, only without the contrasting dissonance.
