biography
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Rózsa, Miklós (Nicholas)
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pronunciation:
[rowsha]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–95)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Budapest, Hungary. A child prodigy on the violin, he studied at Leipzig University, and composed symphonies and ballet music in Paris and London before being commissioned to write his first film score for Knight Without Armour (1937). He settled in Hollywood in 1939, and later concentrated on accompaniments to historical epics, including Quo Vadis (1951) and El Cid (1961). He received Oscars for Spellbound (1945), A Double Life (1947), and Ben Hur (1959). |
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