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Zbigniew Preisner

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Zbigniew Preisner (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈpɾajsnɛɾ]; 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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David Gilmour - Live At Pompeii (Bonus Wroclaw 2016)

2017

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Haunted Heart

2024

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Aprilis

2023

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Man of God

2021

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Dear Child

2020

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Memories of My Father

2020

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Mother Didn't Know

2020

Music

Lies We Tell

2018

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Lies We Tell

2018

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Angelica

2017

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Valley of Shadows

2017

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The Queen of Spain

2016

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My Hindu Friend

2016

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The History of Eternity

2014

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Aglaya

2012

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The Tree of Life

2011

Songs

A Woman in Berlin

2008

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A Secret

2007

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Harry's Daughters

2005

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The Beautiful Country

2004

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Strange Gardens

2003

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It's All About Love

2003

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Between Strangers

2002

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Weiser

2001

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Aberdeen

2000

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The Last September

2000

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Dreaming of Joseph Lees

1999

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Foolish Heart

1998

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FairyTale: A True Story

1997

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The Island on Bird Street

1997

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Feast of July

1995

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Elisa

1995

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Three Colors: Red

1994

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When a Man Loves a Woman

1994

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Three Colors: White

1994

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Desire in Motion

1994

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On the Edge of the Horizon

1993

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Three Colors: Blue

1993

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The Secret Garden

1993

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Damage

1992

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Olivier, Olivier

1992

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Dismissed From Life

1992

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord

1991

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The Double Life of Véronique

1991

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Eminent Domain

1991

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Kieslowski: Dialogue

1991

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Europa Europa

1990

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City Life

1990

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The Last Boat

1990

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The Last Schoolbell

1989

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Decalogue VI

1989

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Decalogue VI

1989

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Decalogue IX

1989

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Decalogue X

1989

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Decalogue VIII

1989

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Decalogue III

1989

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Decalogue II

1989

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Decalogue IV

1989

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Decalogue VII

1989

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Decalogue V

1989

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Decalogue I

1989

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I Love Cinema

1988

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To Kill a Priest

1988

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A Short Film About Love

1988

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A Short Film About Killing

1988

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Escape

1987

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Przez dotyk

1986

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Will There Be a War

1986

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I Like Bats

1986

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Kolysanka

1986

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No End

1985

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The Weather Forecast

1983

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Psychoterapia

1983

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