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Miklós Rózsa ( Hungarian: [ˈmikloːʃ ˈroːʒɒ]; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) [1] 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. [2] .
During his work in Hollywood, Miklós Rózsa won three Academy Awards (“Spellbound”, “A Double Life” and “Ben-Hur”) and was nominated 17 times.
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 ...
Regarded for more than forty years as one of the absolute masters of music in cinema, Miklós Rózsa is also one of the most outstanding composers of this century. I met him last August in Detroit. He was taking part in the Meadow Brook Music Festival, where he conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a concert of his works.
Jul 20, 2020 · Beginning in 1937, Rózsa produced some of the twentieth century’s most memorable and spacious film scores, including the Arabian fantasy The Thief of Bagdad (1940), the Alfred Hitchcock film noir psychological thriller Spellbound (1945), and the epic historical drama Ben-Hur (1959).
Apr 28, 2023 · To preserve his memory and keep his musical legacy alive, in 2016 the Hungarian Hollywood Council and a Los Angeles NGO unveiled a plaque commemorating the world-renowned composer’s childhood years in the town of Nagylóc. Three years later, the Council declared April 18th Miklós Rózsa Memorial Day.
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.
