Pál Rózsa graduated in 1970 as a chemical engineer at the University of Moscow. He then held various positions in industry, foreign trade and the National Planning Bureau. He then worked as a lecturer for the publisher Editio Musica Budapest and has been working as a freelance composer since 1986. As a child, he had learned the violin and as an adult private composition lessons with Sándor Szokolay and Zsolt Durkó taken, both professors at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest. Since 1984 Rózsa has been a member of the Hungarian Composers Union, since 1990 a member of the Hungarian Music Society.
Rózsa's extensive compositional work covers almost all ensembles, from the soloist to the large orchestra, the opera and the oratorio. Several of his works, often commissioned, won national and international awards. Some compositions were recorded for the label Hungaroton.
(Rainer Stelle)