Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian pronunciation: ˈmikloːʃ ˈroːʒɒ) or Miklos Rozsa (18 April 1907 – 27 July 1995) was a Hungarian-born composer and conductor, best known for his numerous film scores. Along with such composers as Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman, Rózsa is considered to be one of the "founding fathers of film music. Miklós Rózsa studied the violin from the age of five. In 1926, he began studying at the Leipzig Conservatory. Read more on Last.fm