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Wojciech Kilar (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕex kilar] (pronounced phonetically: Voy-cheh Kee-lahr) born 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland is a Polish classical and film music .

Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland’s esteemed composers. Born in 1932 in Lwów (now a city in Ukraine, it was part of Poland at the time). His father was a gynecologist and his mother was a theater actress. Kilar has spent most of his life since 1948 in the city of Katowice in Southern Poland, married (from April 1966 to November 2007) to Barbara Pomianowska, a pianist. Kilar was 22 years old when he met 18 year old Barbara, his future wife.

Kilar studied at some of Poland’s finest music academies, including the State Higher School of Music in Katowice, under the composer and pianist Władysława Markiewiczówna, graduating with top honors in 1955. He continued his post-graduate studies at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków from 1955 to 1958 under composer and pianist Bolesław Woytowicz. In 1957 he participated in the International New Music Summer Course in Darmstadt. Kilar expanded on his musical education in Paris in 1959-60, when a scholarship from the French government allowed him to study composition under Nadia Boulanger.

Wojciech Kilar belonged (together with Boleslaw Szabelski, his student Henryk Górecki and Krzysztof Penderecki) to the Polish Avant-garde music movement of the Sixties. In 1977 Kilar was one of the founding members of the Karol Szymanowski Society, based in the mountain town of Zakopane.
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    We have good news for all who loves Wojciech Kilar’s music. You will have an unrepeatable occasion to here it live! The second day of 5th Film Music Festval will be entirely devoted to Wojciech Kilar’s music masterpieces. The concert with the participation of the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra and the Polish Radio Choir will be interwoven with interviews, anecdotes from movie sets, and guests’ reminiscences about working with the great Master. We will hear suites from movies such as Dracula, The Ninth Gate, The Portrait of a Lady, Pan Tadeusz, Trędowata (The Leper), The Pianist and Ziemia obiecana (The Promised Land). https://www.facebook.com/events/281898965219742/?ref=ts

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    Wszystkich wielbicieli muzyki Wojciecha Kilara serdecznie zapraszamy na 5 Festiwal Muzyki Filmowej w Krakowie. Drugi dzień Festiwalu będzie w całości poświęcony muzyce polskiego kompozytora. Usłyszymy suity z takich filmów jak, m.in.: Dracula, Dziewiąte wrota, portret Damy, Dziewiąte Wrota, Pan Tadeusz, Trędowata, Pianista, Ziemia obiecana. Do zobaczenia w Krakowie! https://www.facebook.com/events/281898965219742/?ref=ts

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  • mot00rzysta

    listening to his music I feel proud to be Polish

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    Dracula is amazing

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  • MrAslema

    "Tribute to Komeda" - w utworze wykorzystano utwór Krzysztofa Komedy, pt. Koukol Loughs. Utwór "Kochać i tracić" jest interpretacją wiersza polskiego poety Leopolda Staffa. Materiał do ściągnięcia za darmo na stronie: http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Eternalovers/Silence+of+Sorrow Polski psycho/dark trip hop z mieszanką ambientu i nu jazz-u.

    March 2012

  • Arahand

    Ladies and gentlemen, (who are interested in gloomy music), especially for you, I recently created a group with the same name. I look forward to your recommendations. Thanks in advance. Good luck to you. http://www.lastfm.ru/group/Gloomy+music

    March 2012
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