Joseph Kosma

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-10-22 (64 years old)

Deathday

1969-08-07

Place of Birth

Budapest, Hungary

Joseph Kosma

Biography

Joseph Kosma (22 October 1905 – 7 August 1969) was a Hungarian-French composer. Kosma was born József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He had a brother, Ákos. A maternal relative was the photographer László Moholy-Nagy, and another was the conductor Georg Solti. He started to play the piano at age five, and later took piano lessons. At the age of 11, he wrote his first opera, Christmas in the Trenches. After completing his education at the Secondary Grammar School Franz-Josef, he attended the Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied with Leo Weiner. He also studied with Béla Bartók at the Liszt Academ...

Acting

1936

Jenny

as joueur d'harmonium

Production

1937

Grand Illusion

as Original Music Composer

1951

1963

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

as Original Music Composer

1970

La Fenêtre

as Music

1952

The Green Glove

as Original Music Composer

1960

Croesus

as Original Music Composer

1956

People of No Importance

as Original Music Composer

1952

Crimson Curtain

as Music Director

1953

Rhine Virgin

as Original Music Composer

1936

Jenny

as Original Music Composer

1950

1953

1962

Snobs!

as Music

1938

1947

Noah's Ark

as Original Music Composer

1952

1943

Adieu Léonard

as Original Music Composer

1949

Wicked City

as Music

1938

La Bête Humaine

as Original Music Composer

1947

Bethsabée

as Original Music Composer

1951

Without Leaving an Address

as Original Music Composer

1949

Truant School

as Original Music Composer

1958

Tamango

as Original Music Composer

1947

1957

1947

Noah's Ark

as Music

1945

Children of Paradise

as Additional Music

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

as Original Music Composer

1946

Gates of the Night

as Original Music Composer

1949

Blood of the Beasts

as Original Music Composer

1956

Main Street

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

as Original Music Composer

1959

Picnic on the Grass

as Original Music Composer

1960

Experiment in Evil

as Original Music Composer

1959

Katia

as Original Music Composer

1956

That Is the Dawn

as Original Music Composer

1974

The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

as Original Music Composer

1963

In the French Style

as Original Music Composer

1960

1956

Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Rules of the Game

as Original Music Composer

1946

A Day in the Country

as Original Music Composer

1950

Fugitive from Montreal

as Original Music Composer

1956

1954

No Exit

as Original Music Composer

1951

Juliette, or Key of Dreams

as Original Music Composer

1938

1951

Perfectionist

as Original Music Composer

1951

1956

Soupçons

as Original Music Composer

1962

The Elusive Corporal

as Original Music Composer

1955

Magic Village

as Original Music Composer

1958

A Certain Mr. Jo

as Original Music Composer

1967

Bitter Fruit

as Original Music Composer

1950

Black Jack

as Music

1950

Disorder

as Music

1957

The Case of Dr. Laurent

as Original Music Composer

1950

1955

The Fugitives

as Original Music Composer

1948

The Eleven O'Clock Woman

as Original Music Composer

1949

The Lovers of Verona

as Original Music Composer

1948

Man to Men

as Original Music Composer

1947

Love Around the House

as Original Music Composer

1962

The Doll

as Original Music Composer

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