Zbigniew Preisner

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Known For

Sound

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Gender

Male

Birthday

1955-05-20 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Bielsko-Biala, Slaskie, Polska

Also Known As

  • Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski

Zbigniew Preisner

Biography

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Zbigniew Preisner (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈpɾajsnɛɾ]; 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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Aprilis as Music
2021
Man of God as Original Music Composer
2020
Dear Child as Music
2020
Memories of My Father as Original Music Composer
2020
Mother Didn't Know as Music
2018
Lies We Tell as Music
2017
Angelica as Original Music Composer
2017
Valley of Shadows as Music
2016
The Queen of Spain as Original Music Composer
2015
My Hindu Friend as Original Music Composer
2014
The History of Eternity as Original Music Composer
2012
Aglaya as Music
2011
The Tree of Life as Songs
2008
A Woman in Berlin as Original Music Composer
2007
A Secret as Music
2005
Harry's Daughters as Music
2004
The Beautiful Country as Original Music Composer
2003
Strange Gardens as Original Music Composer
2003
It's All About Love as Original Music Composer
2002
Between Strangers as Original Music Composer
2001
Weiser as Music
2000
Aberdeen as Original Music Composer
2000
The Last September as Original Music Composer
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Original Music Composer
1998
Foolish Heart as Original Music Composer
1997
FairyTale: A True Story as Music
1997
The Island on Bird Street as Original Music Composer
1995
Radetzky March as Original Music Composer
1995
Feast of July as Original Music Composer
1995
Elisa as Music
1994
Three Colors: Red as Original Music Composer
1994
When a Man Loves a Woman as Original Music Composer
1994
Three Colors: White as Original Music Composer
1994
Desire in Motion as Music
1993
On the Edge of the Horizon as Music
1993
Three Colors: Blue as Original Music Composer
1993
The Secret Garden as Original Music Composer
1992
Damage as Original Music Composer
1992
Olivier, Olivier as Music
1992
Dismissed From Life as Music
1991
At Play in the Fields of the Lord as Original Music Composer
1991
The Double Life of Véronique as Original Music Composer
1991
Eminent Domain as Music
1991
Kieslowski: Dialogue as Music
1990
Europa Europa as Original Music Composer
1990
City Life as Music
1990
The Last Boat as Music
1989
Dekalog as Original Music Composer
1989
The Last Schoolbell as Music
1989
Decalogue VI as Original Music Composer
1989
Decalogue VI as Conductor
1989
Decalogue IX as Original Music Composer
1989
Decalogue X as Original Music Composer
1989
Decalogue II as Original Music Composer
1989
Decalogue VII as Original Music Composer
1989
Decalogue V as Original Music Composer
1989
Decalogue IV as Original Music Composer
1989
Decalogue VIII as Original Music Composer
1989
Decalogue III as Original Music Composer
1989
Decalogue I as Music
1988
I Love Cinema as Original Music Composer
1988
A Short Film About Love as Music
1988
A Short Film About Killing as Original Music Composer
1987
Escape as Music
1986
Przez dotyk as Music
1986
Will There Be a War as Music
1986
I Like Bats as Original Music Composer
1986
Kolysanka as Music
1985
No End as Original Music Composer
1983
The Weather Forecast as Music
1983
Psychoterapia as Music
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