The austere Requiem of 1922 is well worth hearing. It shares a Hyperion disc with Frank Martin's Mass of the same year. "Romantic" and "impressionist" are not words I would associate with these beautiful works, which might fruitfully be compared with Vaughan Williams's Mass in G.

I don't know that Rozsa had any connection with Pizzetti (1880-1968) , but they could easily have met. We need to know more about the Italian side of Rozsa's musical life. He lived in Italy for a portion of just about every year from 1953 to 1982. That's longer than he lived in Germany or France or England or, yes, Hungary. Of couse Rozsa's style was fully formed by 1953, but obviously he found Italy's musical culture simpatico.