Zbigniew Preisner
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- May 20, 1955 (age 71)
- Birthplace
- Bielsko-Biala, Slaskie, Poland
Biography
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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Filmography
Requiem
Movie · Songs
Parallel Tales
Movie · Original Music Composer
Postscriptum. Ruminations on My Craft
Movie · Music
Haunted Heart
Movie · Original Music Composer
Europa Centrale
Movie · Original Music Composer
Aprilis
Movie · Music
Man of God
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mother Didn't Know
Movie · Music
Memories of My Father
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dear Child
Movie · Music
Lies We Tell
Movie · Music, Original Music Composer
Angelica
Movie · Original Music Composer
Valley of Shadows
Movie · Music
The Queen of Spain
Movie · Original Music Composer
My Hindu Friend
Movie · Original Music Composer
Lost and Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Lady of the Dynasty
Movie · Original Music Composer
The History of Eternity
Movie · Original Music Composer
Aglaya
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Tree of Life
Movie · Songs
A Woman in Berlin
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Secret
Movie · Music
Sportsman of the Century
Movie · Music
Harry's Daughters
Movie · Music
The Beautiful Country
Movie · Original Music Composer
It's All About Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Strange Gardens
Movie · Original Music Composer
Between Strangers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Weiser
Movie · Music
Aberdeen
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Last September
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Movie · Original Music Composer
Foolish Heart
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Island on Bird Street
Movie · Original Music Composer
FairyTale: A True Story
Movie · Original Music Composer
Feast of July
Movie · Original Music Composer
Élisa
Movie · Original Music Composer
Radetzky March
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
Three Colors: White
Movie · Original Music Composer
Three Colors: Red
Movie · Original Music Composer
When a Man Loves a Woman
Movie · Original Music Composer
Desire in Motion
Movie · Original Music Composer
Three Colors: Blue
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Secret Garden
Movie · Original Music Composer
On the Edge of the Horizon
Movie · Music
Damage
Movie · Original Music Composer
Olivier, Olivier
Movie · Music
Dismissed From Life
Movie · Music
The Double Life of Véronique
Movie · Original Music Composer
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Movie · Original Music Composer
Kieslowski: Dialogue
Movie · Music
Eminent Domain
Movie · Music
Europa Europa
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Last Boat
Movie · Music
City Life
Movie · Music
Decalogue IX
Movie · Original Music Composer
Decalogue X
Movie · Original Music Composer
Decalogue VIII
Movie · Original Music Composer
Decalogue III
Movie · Original Music Composer
Decalogue II
Movie · Original Music Composer
Decalogue IV
Movie · Original Music Composer
Decalogue VI
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Decalogue VII
Movie · Original Music Composer
Decalogue V
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Last Schoolbell
Movie · Music
Decalogue I
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dekalog
TV · Original Music Composer, Conductor · 10 eps
A Short Film About Killing
Movie · Original Music Composer
I Love Cinema
Movie · Original Music Composer
To Kill a Priest
Movie · Songs
A Short Film About Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
On The Run
Movie · Music
I Like Bats
Movie · Original Music Composer
Will There Be a War
Movie · Music
The Lullaby
Movie · Music
Przez dotyk
Movie · Music
No End
Movie · Original Music Composer
Psychoterapia
Movie · Music
The Weather Forecast
Movie · Music