Talk:Miklós Rózsa

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[edit] Composition dates of concert works with orchestra

The article indicates that the Sinfonia concertante (op. 29) was composed in 1966. However, the premiere recording of this work with Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky was made three years earlier in 1963 (still available in Volume 21 of the Heifetz Collection on RCA Gold Seal 09026-61752-2). This doesn't provide hard evidence to the actual date of composition, apart from the fact that it was no later than 1963. 1966 is the date noted on the The Miklós Rózsa Society website website, but I wonder if that's the publication date. If that is, in fact, the case, it might be more accurate to explicitly state that these are publication rather than composition dates. 68.72.96.159 02:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

The published score shows a copyright of 1966. The 1963 RCA recording is not the complete work but only a reduced version of the slow movement, called "Tema con variazioni." The complete work was not performed until 1966.Rozsaphile1 23:42, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Re Sinfonia Concerante: When I interviewed Rozsa in late 1961 and asked about future concert work, he said, "The first thing I must do is finish this piece for Heifitz," pointing to the mss. on the piano, referring to what he then called a double concerto. Likely it was finished in early '62, no later than in the summer of '62 in Italy. Nick Rozsa, can you help us out here? (Interview with Rozsa by Bill Taylor, Hollywood November 1961)