Biography
Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-born composer of film scores and concert music. Born in Budapest in 1907, he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory before working in Paris and London. He moved to the United States in 1940 and became an American citizen in 1946.
Rózsa composed scores for nearly one hundred films. His credits include Double Indemnity (1944) and Ben-Hur (1959). He won Academy Awards for the scores of Spellbound (1945), A Double Life (1947) and Ben-Hur (1959). Throughout his career he also wrote concert works, including orchestral pieces performed by artists such as Jascha Heifetz.
Rózsa died in Los Angeles in 1995.
