Zbigniew Preisner

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Zbigniew Preisner (b. 1955) is one of Poland’s leading film score composers, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Preisner was born on 20th May 1955 in Bielsko-Biała. He studied history and philosophy in Kraków; never having received formal music lessons, he taught himself about music by listening and transcribing parts from records. His compositional style represents a distinctively spare form of tonal neo-Romanticism.

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 dominant 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 at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival 1997 for The Island on Bird Street.

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  • bruno__________

    I agree.

    19 Apr 3:26pm Reply
  • yourmilk

    As much as I love La Double Vie I have to admit, Dekalog is his masterpiece

    20 Mar 7:46pm Reply
  • BrookBaptiste

    This is not music, this is a magic.... [3]

    8 Mar 11:22am Reply
  • Numquamm

    دوستی به درستی می گفت : برخی از آثار ِ کلاسیک های معاصر را باید به پرایزنر سپرد بلکه شکفته شوند. به این اشاره ی ِبه جا به قدرت بی نظیر ِ این مرد در تنظیم باید افزود که رنج ِ عزیزی که در موسیقی او تبدیل به هنر می شود هم کم نظیر است (پسند ِ نخست ِ من : ریکویم)

    27 Feb 4:05pm Reply
  • weakly

    This is not music, this is a magic.... [2]

    10 Feb 3:39pm Reply
  • new_wave00

    This is not music, this is a magic....

    5 Feb 3:58am Reply
  • AmirShahbazi

    I can not say anything, Let the Silence speaks... loving the Silence in your music... Silence...

    1 Feb 9:02pm Reply
  • FyoMiDos

    I can't believe that I never knew about him before. What a genius. [2] WOW!

    1 Feb 7:56pm Reply
  • KilleR-3068

    pure genius

    30 Dec 2012 Reply
  • livingjasmine

    I can't believe that I never knew about him before. What a genius.

    28 Dec 2012 Reply
  • Afangefel

    Genius.

    22 Dec 2012 Reply
  • Epitymbidia

    Preisner has been hired to score the upcoming drama "The Green Blade Rises", the directorial debut of A.J. Edwards, who worked with Terrence Malick on his past three films.

    20 Dec 2012 Reply
  • rafaelagodoy

    2 Nov 2012 Reply
  • fabduchi

    Que groso este tipo! Un genio absoluto de la nueva era.

    21 Oct 2012 Reply
  • Hakidonmuya

    Wonderful music for wonderful Kieslowski movies!

    13 Aug 2012 Reply
  • sikorska_

    na oficjalnej stronie Z.Beksińskiego jest odtwarzana muzyka Preisnera... niezły klimat :)

    10 Aug 2012 Reply
  • AsQ55

    Skaza... Damage FAtale..

    26 Jul 2012 Reply
  • LuyingSun

    great master!

    25 Jul 2012 Reply
  • Killerdwarf

    Lacrimosa !!!

    17 Jul 2012 Reply
  • Alex_psychopaul

    Podwójne życie Weroniki

    11 Jul 2012 Reply
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