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Wojciech Kilar. Wojciech Kilar was a Polish classical and film music composer. His film scores have won many honors including the best score award for the music to The Promised Land in 1975, followed by the Prix Louis Delluc in 1980 for the music to The King and the Mockingbird, and an award at the Cork International Film Festival for the music ...
He authored the radical Riff 62, the folkloristic Orawa, the sacral Angelus, the Polonaise from Polański's Pan Tadeusz, and the Waltz from Wajda's The Promised Land. Here are some of the lesser-known notes on Wojciech Kilar.
Wojciech Kilar was a Polish classical and film music composer. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, which received the ASCAP Award and the nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Music. In 2003, he won the César Award for Best Film Music written for The Pianist, for which he also received a BAFTA nomination.
Dec 29, 2013 · WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Wojciech Kilar, a Polish pianist and composer of classical music and scores for many films, including Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning "The Pianist" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula," died Sunday. He was 81. The composer died in his hometown of Katowice, southern Poland, following a long illness, according to Jerzy Kornowicz, head of the Association of ...
Jan 11, 2014 · Mr. Kilar won recognition for his music for “The Pianist” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” as well as works inspired by Polish folk music.
Exodus. (Kilar) Exodus is a composition for choir and orchestra written between 1979 and 1981 by the Polish composer Wojciech Kilar. The score is based on the eponymous story from the Biblical Book of Exodus and is set to a Latin text. Its world premiere was given at the Warsaw Autumn festival on 19 September 1981. [1]
Wojciech Kilar was a prolific classical composer who was best known outside his native Poland for his work on scores for more than 130 films, including Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002) and ...
