Ákos Rózmann, born on July 16, 1939, in Budapest, Hungary, was a Hungarian-Swedish composer and organist. He studied composition at the Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, graduating in 1966. Rózmann composed film music for Mafilm before moving to Sweden in 1971 for postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. His first significant work, Impulsioni, won third prize at the Bourges Concours International de Musique Électroacoustique in 1976. Rózmann settled in Stockholm and became an organist at the Stockholm Catholic Cathedral from 1978 to 1997. Notable works include Bilder Inför Drömmen Och Döden/Images of the Dream and Death (1991) and Twelve Stations, a six-hour composition completed in 2001. His final work, Orgelstycke nr III/a, was completed in January 2005. Rózmann died on August 12, 2005, from pancreatic cancer.
