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Miklós Rózsa. Hungarian-born composer best known for his film scores. Born April 18, 1907, Budapest, Austro-Hungarian empire. Died July 27, 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA. 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.
Feb 25, 2023 · Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-American composer and conductor, known for his film scores and concert music. He received 17 Academy Award nominations and won three Oscars. Rózsa was introduced to classical and folk music by his parents and was trained in Germany, France, and the UK before moving to the US in 1940. He became a US citizen in 1946.
El Cid (1961) remains one of Miklós Rózsa’s most revered scores, written in the glorious orchestral style he employed on other historical epics like Knights of the Round Table and Ben-Hur. Rózsa’s music for the legend of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar is endlessly thematic: the score’s closely knit ideas are reverent toward the titular hero ...
Finale from Providence (1977) The Tunnel from The Last Embrace (1979) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) New England Concerto for two pianos and orchestra featuring themes from Lydia and Time Out of Mind (1984) Fantasy on themes from Young Bess for organ, harp, brass and timpani (1984) Suite in the Olden Style.
Nov 22, 2019 · Yet one aspect of Ben-Hur cannot be overlooked – Miklós Rózsa’s sensational score has aged spectacularly well. Still the longest score ever composed for a single movie, according to Jon Solomon , it proved so popular in its own right that it has been rereleased on its own several times.
Dec 1, 2001 · The Double Life of Miklos Rozsa. A major composer, long dismissed as a Hollywood sellout, may finally be coming into his own. Far more people have heard the music of Miklós Rózsa than that of his countryman and fellow modernist Béla Bartók, but far fewer know his name. For more than four decades, Rózsa divided his time between writing ...
