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Joseph Kosma

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Year of Birth:1905
Year of death:1969

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Joseph Kosma (22 October 19057 August 1969) was a Hungarian composer who emigrated to France.
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... more

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