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Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski, Zigniew Preisner
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Zbigniew Preisner (born 20 May 1955) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Preisner is best known for the music composed for the films directed by fellow Pole Krzysztof Kieślowski. His Song for the Unification of Europe, based on the Greek text of 1 Corinthians 13, is attributed to a character in Kieślowski's Three Colors: Blue and plays a dominating role in the story. His music for Three Colors: Red includes a setting of Polish and French versions of a poem by Wisława Szymborska, a Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet. After working with Kieślowski on Three Colors: Blue, Preisner was hired by the producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score for The Secret Garden, directed by Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Although Preisner is most closely associated with Kieślowski, he has collaborated with several other directors, winning a César in 1996 for his work on Jean Becker's Élisa. He has won a number of other awards, including another César in 1994 for Three Colors: Red, and the Silver Bear from the 47th Berlin International Film Festival 1997 for The Island on Bird Street. He was nominated for Golden Globe awards for his scores for Three Colors: Blue (1993) and At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991). In 1998, Requiem for My Friend, Preisner's first large scale work not written for film, premiered. It was originally intended as a narrative work to be written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz and directed by Kieślowski, but it became a memorial to Kieślowski after the director's death. The Lacrimosa from this Requiem appears in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. The Dies Irae from this Requiem appears in the film La Grande Bellezza, directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Preisner composed the theme music for the People's Century, a monumental twenty-six part documentary made jointly in 1994 by the BBC television network in United Kingdom and the PBS television network in the United States. He has also worked with director Thomas Vinterberg on the 2003 film It's All About Love. He provided orchestration for David Gilmour's 2006 album On An Island as well as additional orchestrations for the show at Gdańsk shipyards at which he also conducted the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, this was documented on the album Live in Gdańsk (2008). Silence, Night and Dreams is Zbigniew Preisner's new recording project, a large-scale work for orchestra, choir and soloists, based on texts from the Book of Job. The premier recording, was released in 2007 with the lead singer of Madredeus, Teresa Salgueiro and boy soprano Thomas Cully from Libera.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1955-05-20
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Sound
- star Popularity: 1.1
- info Birth Place Bielsko-Biala, Slaskie, Poland
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David Gilmour - Live At Pompeii (Bonus Wroclaw 2016)
2017-09-29
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2005-02-27
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David Gilmour - Live in Wroclaw 2016
2016-06-25
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Three Colors: White
1994-01-26
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Three Colors: Blue
1993-09-08
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Three Colors: Red
1994-05-12
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The Double Life of Véronique
1991-05-15
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A Short Film About Killing
1988-03-11
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When a Man Loves a Woman
1994-04-29
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The Secret Garden
1993-08-13
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Damage
1992-12-02
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Weiser
2001-01-18
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It's All About Love
2003-01-10
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Europa Europa
1990-11-14
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Strange Gardens
2003-03-26
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The Island on Bird Street
1997-04-11
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The Last Boat
1990-01-25
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Harry's Daughters
2005-10-21
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Feast of July
1995-10-12
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Man of God
2021-08-26
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Psychoterapia
1983-10-25
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The History of Eternity
2014-07-26
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Angelica
2017-11-17
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I Love Cinema
1988-12-16
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The Tree of Life
2011-05-17
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Aberdeen
2000-09-08
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A Woman in Berlin
2008-10-23
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I Like Bats
1986-07-14
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Decalogue IX
1989-05-16
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Decalogue X
1989-05-16
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No End
1985-06-17
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Decalogue VIII
1989-05-16
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Decalogue III
1989-05-16
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Decalogue II
1989-05-16
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Decalogue IV
1989-05-16
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Decalogue VI
1989-09-04
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Decalogue VII
1989-05-16
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Decalogue V
1989-05-16
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Will There Be a War
1986-08-19
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991-12-06
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Decalogue VI
1989-09-04
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The Last September
2000-04-28
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Aglaya
2012-10-11
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The Queen of Spain
2016-11-25
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The Beautiful Country
2004-03-13
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Olivier, Olivier
1992-10-28
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Kieslowski: Dialogue
1991-01-01
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To Kill a Priest
1988-09-07
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Aprilis
2023-03-03
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Lies We Tell
2018-02-02
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Stimulants & Empathogens
2024-05-27
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FairyTale: A True Story
1997-10-24
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A Short Film About Love
1988-08-21
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Elisa
1995-02-01
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Decalogue I
1989-05-16
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Valley of Shadows
2017-10-20
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Haunted Heart
2024-08-23
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Foolish Heart
1998-06-02
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On the Edge of the Horizon
1993-11-24
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Between Strangers
2002-08-30
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Kolysanka
1986-01-01
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My Hindu Friend
2016-03-03
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Mother Didn't Know
2020-06-10
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Memories of My Father
2020-08-22
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Dismissed From Life
1992-09-17
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Przez dotyk
1986-09-29
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999-10-29
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Escape
1987-08-29
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Dear Child
2020-09-13
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A Secret
2007-10-03
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The Weather Forecast
1983-11-14
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The Last Schoolbell
1989-10-27
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Desire in Motion
1994-01-01
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City Life
1990-01-26
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Eminent Domain
1991-04-12
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Dekalog
1989-12-10
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Radetzky March
1995-12-27