Miklós Rózsa

A Hungarian, he trained in Leipzig and started as a concert composer. He came to film in London with Alexander Korda and followed him to Hollywood to finish The Thief of Bagdad. There he wrote for film noir (Double Indemnity) and used the theremin in Hitchcock's Spellbound. His third Oscar came with Ben-Hur. He never gave up concert music, writing concertos for violin and for piano.

Style

Solemn marches and choirs, Hungarian colour and ancient modes for period films.

Awards

3 Oscars: Spellbound, A Double Life and Ben-Hur. Sources credit him with 16 or 17 nominations.

Discography

• Blood on the Sun (1945) Spotify · Apple Music
• Spellbound (1945) Spotify
• The Lost Weekend (1945) Spotify
• Brute Force & The Naked City (1947) Spotify
• Madame Bovary (1949) Spotify · Apple Music
• Ivanhoe (1952) Spotify · Apple Music
• Plymouth Adventure (1952) Spotify
• All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953) Spotify · Apple Music
• The Story of Three Loves (1953) Spotify
• Young Bess (1953) Spotify · Apple Music
• Green Fire (1954) Spotify
• The Seventh Sin (1957) Spotify · Apple Music
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) Spotify
• Ben-Hur (1959) Spotify
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) Spotify · Apple Music
• El Cid (1961) Spotify
• King of Kings (1961) Spotify
• The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977) Spotify · Apple Music
• Time After Time (1979) Spotify
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) Spotify · Apple Music

"Spotify" and "Apple Music" open the album directly on each platform; if only Spotify appears, we have not yet been able to check that album on Apple Music. "Search Spotify" opens an album search for that title. If a link does not lead to the right album, write to [email protected]. "Album" marks the year of that album edition when it differs from the film's.

Listen

• Parade of the Charioteers · Ben-HurSpotifyApple MusicYouTube
• Spellbound Main Title · SpellboundSpotifyApple MusicYouTube
• El Cid Overture · El CidSpotifyApple MusicYouTube

Full biography on Wikipedia