Artist Info: Joseph Kosma

Joseph Kosma (22 October 1905 – 7 August 1969) was a Hungarian-French composer of Jewish background.

Kosma was born József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He had a brother, Akos. A maternal relative was the photographer László Moholy-Nagy, and another relative was the conductor Georg Solti. He started to play the piano at age 5, and later took piano lessons. At the age of 11, he wrote his first opera, Christmas in the Trenches. [read more...]