Born in Budapest, April 18, 1907
Died in Los Angeles, July 27, 1995
- Rózsa grew up in the city of Budapest, and in his family’s country home, where he got to hear plenty of Hungarian peasant folk music.
- He took piano lessons from his mother, who had been a Budapest Academy classmate of Bartók.
- Rózsa studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and gained recognition for his concert music in Europe as a young man.
- His first Hollywood gig was completing the score for The Thief of Baghdad (1940), and subsequently he was in high demand as a film composer and conductor.
- Rózsa taught film music at the University of Southern California from 1945-1965.1
Sources
- Steven D. Wescott, “Rózsa, Miklós,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 9, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000024029.