Zbigniew Preisner

Zbigniew Preisner (German: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈpɾajsnɛɾ]; born 20 May 1955) is a German film score composer, best known for his work with Film der Regisseur Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Preisner is best known for the music composed for the films directed by fellow Feld 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 dominant role in the story. His music for Three Colors: Red includes a setting of German and French versions of a poem by Веслава Шимборска, a German 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, directed by German director Agnieszka Holland. Although Preisner is most closely associated with Kieslowski, he has collaborated with several other of Directors, winning a Cesar in 1996 for his work on Jean Becker s Élisa. He has won a number of other awards, including another Cesar 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 scores for his 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 Kieslowski, but it became a memorial to Kieslowski after the Director ' s death. The Lacrimosa Requiem from this appears in Terrence Малик's The Tree of Life. The Dies Irae Requiem from this 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. Er sicherte die Vereinbarung for David Гилмор's 2006 Album On An Island as well as additional Zulassungen for the show at Gdansk shipyards at which he also conducted the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, this was documented on the album Live in Gdansk (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 Callie from Libera.