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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
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 ...
Miklós Rósza: Hollywood Spectacular by Rainer Padberg, Miklós Rózsa released in 1992. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Jul 22, 2020 · Miklós Rózsa: Seven Great Film Scores. July 22, 2020 by Timothy Judd. Beginning in the 1930s and 40s, the soaring, majestic sound we associate with the golden age of Hollywood films was created largely by Eastern European emigres—composers such as Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman and Max Steiner. Another significant name from this list ...
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.
- January 1, 1
- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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Feb 11, 2007 · Miklos Rozsa, Rainer Padberg, Royal Philharmonic - Miklos Rozsa: Hollywood Spectacular - Amazon.com Music. CDs & Vinyl.
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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.
