Miklós Rózsa

A Hungarian-born composer, most famous for his Hollywood and British film scores, but also responsible for a significant body of chamber pieces, concertos, and orchestral music for the concert hall. Rózsa's music is steeped in post-romanticism, with stylistic roots in the folk music of his native Hungary and some slight influences from those two giants of 20th-century Hungarian music, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly. Tonal and melodic -- often achingly so -- his work at its most accessible recalls the music of Dvorak, Janacek, and Respighi, although it is drawn from Hungarian so...