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Biography
Refimprove|date=February 2008Infobox person|image =|imagesize =| name = Zbigniew Preisner| birth_date = birth date and age|1955|5|20|df=yes| birth_place = Bielsko-Biala , Poland | death_date =| death_place =| othername =| occupation = Composer| yearsactive = 1981 & ndash; presentZbigniew Preisner (IPA-pol|'zbig??f 'p?ajsn??; born 20 May 1955 in Bielsko-Biala as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski http://www.rmf.fm/muzyka/biografia,1601,Zbigniew,Preisner.html) is a Polish film score composer , best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieslowski .
Life
Zbigniew Preisner studied history and philosophy in Kraków . Never having received formal music lessons, he taught himself music by listening and transcribing parts from vinyl record|record s. His compositional style represents a distinctively spare form of tonality|tonal neo-Romantic ism. Paganini and Jean Sibelius are acknowledged influences.
Work
Preisner is best known for the music composed for the films directed by fellow Pole Krzysztof Kieslowski. His Song for the Unification of Europe , based on the Greek text of 1 Corinthians 13 , is attributed to a character in Kieslowski'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 Wislawa Szymborska , a Polish Nobel Prize -winning poet.
After working with Kieslowski on Three Colors: Blue , Preisner was hired by the producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score for The Secret Garden (1993 movie)|The Secret Garden , directed by Polish director Agnieszka Holland . Although Preisner is most closely associated with Kieslowski, he has collaborated with several other directors, winning a César Award|César in 1996 for his work on Jean Becker (director, actor)|Jean Becker 's Élisa (film)|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 (film)|The Island on Bird Street .cite web |url= http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1997/03_preistr_ger_1997/03_Preistraeger_1997.html |title=Berlinale: 1997 Prize Winners |accessdate=2012-01-08 |work=berlinale.de
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 Kieslowski, but it became a memorial to Kieslowski after the director's death. The Lacrimosa from it appears in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (film) . He composed the theme music for the '' People's Century , a monumental twenty-six part documentary film|documentary made jointly in 1994 by the BBC television network in United Kingdom and the Public Broadcasting Service|PBS television network in the United States. He has also worked with director Thomas Vinterberg on the 2003 film It's All About Love '' and provided orchestration for David Gilmour 's 2006 album On An Island . 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 (music)|Libera .emiclassics.com http://www.emiclassics.com/releaseabout.php? rid=45269 Silence, Night and Dreams release info
Van den Budenmayer
Van den Budenmayer is a fictitious 18th-century Dutch composer created by Preisner and director Krzysztof Kieslowski for attributions in screenplays.Cite web|last=musicolog.com |title=Zbigniew Preisner |url= http://www.musicolog.com/preisner.asp Preisner said Van den Budenmayer is a pseudonym he and Krzysztof Kieslowski|Kieslowski invented "because we both loved the Netherlands". Music "by" the Dutch composer plays a role in three Krzysztof Kieslowski|Kieslowski films. The first is The Decalogue (1988). The second is Three Colours: Blue (1993) in which a theme from his musique funebres is quoted in the Song for the Unification of Europe . Its E minor soprano solo is prefigured in the earlier film The Double Life of Veronique (1991), where circumstances in the story prevent the solo from finishing. The third is Three Colours: Red (1994).
http://www.cmusic.tv/watchvideo/341 Television Interview with Preisner from C Music TV.
Persondata | NAME =Preisner, Zbigniew | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Composer | DATE OF BIRTH = 20 May 1955 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Bielsko-Biala , Poland | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Preisner, Zbigniew Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century classical composers Category:Polish composers Category:Polish film score composers Category:People from Bielsko-Biala Category:City of Kraków Award laureates
