Age, Biography and Wiki
Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores. He composed the scores for over 100 films, including classics such as Ben-Hur, Spellbound, and The Thief of Bagdad. He was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three.
Rózsa was born in Budapest, Hungary, on April 18, 1907. He began studying music at the age of five and was a child prodigy. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and later at the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany.
Rózsa moved to the United States in 1940 and began composing for films. He wrote the score for Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound in 1945, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He went on to compose the scores for many other films, including Ben-Hur, The Thief of Bagdad, and Quo Vadis. He was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three.
Rózsa was also a conductor and performed with many of the world's leading orchestras. He was a professor of music at the University of Southern California and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rózsa died in London on July 27, 1995, at the age of 88. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters.
| Popular As |
N/A |
| Occupation |
music_department,composer,soundtrack |
| Age |
88 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
| Born |
18 April, 1907 |
| Birthday |
18 April |
| Birthplace |
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
(now Hungary) |
| Date of death |
July 27, 1995 |
| Died Place |
Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality |
Hungary |
We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 18 April.
He is a member of famous Music Department with the age 88 years old group.
Miklós Rózsa Height, Weight & Measurements
At 88 years old, Miklós Rózsa height not available right now. We will update Miklós Rózsa's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
| Physical Status |
| Height |
Not Available |
| Weight |
Not Available |
| Body Measurements |
Not Available |
| Eye Color |
Not Available |
| Hair Color |
Not Available |
Who Is Miklós Rózsa's Wife?
His wife is Margaret Finlason (m. 1943)
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Wife |
Margaret Finlason (m. 1943) |
| Sibling |
Not Available |
| Children |
Juliet Rozsa, Nicolas Rozsa |
Miklós Rózsa Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Miklós Rózsa worth at the age of 88 years old? Miklós Rózsa’s income source is mostly from being a successful Music Department. He is from Hungary. We have estimated
Miklós Rózsa's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2022 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
| Cars |
Not Available |
| Source of Income |
Music Department |
Miklós Rózsa Social Network
Timeline
Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 532-534. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
His address in the 1990s was 2936 Montcalm Ave., Los Angeles, CA.
Rozsa was honored on his 80th birthday in 1987 by ASCAP with the Golden Soundtrack Award.
A "Miklos Rozsa Day" was declared by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley on the occasion of the composer's 80th birthday accompanied by a recital of his 'Toccata Capricciosa" (Zwritten in 1977.) Rozsa received congratulatory messages from President and Mrs. Reagan, English PM Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth, Pope John Paul II, and the Hungarian ambassador.
His "Violin Concerto No. 2", written in 1956 for Jascha Heifetz and recorded that year for RCA Victor, was used as source material for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
The Dragnet (1951) "dum de dum dum" theme was previously used by Rozsa in his score for The Killers (1946). It can be prominently found in the restaurant shootout scene toward the end of the film.
The "neurotic waltz" theme Rosza composed for "Madame Bovary" (1949) was composed in advance of the film's starting production, an unusual practice in the Hollywood of the late 40s.
One of his innovations was the use of a theremin for the famous dream sequence in Spellbound (1945) which accompanies Salvador Dalí's transcendental nightmare images.
Few composers have managed to convey suspense and tension as powerfully as Rózsa with his eerily haunting scores for some of the Golden Era's best films noir (Double Indemnity (1944), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), The Killers (1946), The Naked City (1948)) or his lush, stirring music for spectacular epics (Quo Vadis (1951), Ivanhoe (1952), El Cid (1961)). 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).
Billy Wilder's first choice as composer for Five Graves to Cairo (1943) was Franz Waxman, but Warner Bros. would not release him. Wilder was happy with Rozsa's score but Paramount Music Department boss [xxxx] was not. Wilder ultimately prevailed.
"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.
In Hollywood he worked under contract at United Artists (for Alexander Korda, 1938-42), Paramount (1943-44), Universal (1946-48) and MGM (1949-57).
The resulting work, 'Hungaria', so impressed the director Jacques Feyder that he set up a meeting with fellow Hungarian Alexander Korda, who then commissioned him to write an opulent score for the romantic drama Knight Without Armor (1937). Rózsa later recalled having to learn to write music for films 'the hard way': "I bought one German and one Russian book on the technique of film music and everything I learned from these books was absolutely wrong! But then I had long conferences with Muir Mathieson, who was the music director and conductor for Korda, and somehow I learned.
In 1935, Rózsa went to London after being invited by the Hungarian Legation to write the music for a ballet.
He obtained his doctorate in music in 1930. Moving to Paris the following year, Rózsa had much of his own chamber music performed, as well as his 'Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song' and his 'Symphony and Serenade for Small Orchestra'. However, he soon became disenchanted with meagre wages for playing classical music in concert. Attempting to change his financial situation, Rózsa managed to secure a contract with Pathe records to compose music for use in intermissions between movies. This was to be his first step in entering the more lucrative field of film composition.
Graduated Cum Laude from the Leipzig Conservatory in 1929.
A child prodigy, Miklos Rózsa learned to play the violin at the age of five and read music before he was able to read words. In 1926, he began studying at the Leipzig Conservatory where he was considered a brilliant student.
