Wojciech Kilar

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Photograph of Wojciech Kilar.
Photograph of Wojciech Kilar.

Wojciech Kilar (b. 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland now L'viv, Ukraine) is a Polish classical and film music composer.

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[edit] Life

Kilar studied in Katowice and later on in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He has won several prizes for his works and belongs (together with Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Górecki) to the Polish avant-garde movement of the Sixties. His orchestral work Krzesany (Climbing up the mountains) from 1974 became famous, but since the mid 1970s he has become well known as a composer of film scores, increasingly in Hollywood (working with Roman Polanski). He is still publishing symphonic music, chamber works and works for solo instruments. January 2001 saw the world premiere of his Missa pro pace (composed for a full symphony orchestra, mixed choir and a quartet of soloists) at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. In December of that year it was performed again at the Vatican in the presence of Pope John Paul II. [1]

[edit] Works

[edit] Orchestral

  • Small Overture (1955), for the Youth Festival, 1955
  • Symphony for Strings (1955)
  • Ode Béla Bartók in memoriam, for violin, brass, and percussion (1956)
  • Riff 62 (1962)
  • Generique (1963)
  • Springfield Sonnet (1965)
  • Prelude and Christmas Carol, for four oboes and string orchestra (1972)
  • Krzesany (1974)
  • Kóscielec (1976)
  • Orawa, for string orchestra (1988)
  • Choralvorspiel, for string orchestra, (1988)
  • Requiem Father Kolbe, for symphony orchestra (1994)

[edit] Concertante

  • Symphony Concertant, for piano and orchestra (1956)
  • Piano Concerto (1996)

[edit] Chamber

  • Flute Sonatina (1951)
  • Woodwind Quintet (1952)
  • Training 68, for clarinet, trombone, and piano, (1968)

[edit] Piano

Numerous solo piano pieces

[edit] Film music

  • Nikt nie woła (Nobody's calling) (1960)
  • Tarpany (Wild Horses) (1962)
  • Głos z tamtego świata (Voice from beyond) (1962)
  • Milczenie (Silence) (1963)
  • Trzy kroki po ziemi (Three steps on Earth) (1965)
  • Piekło i niebo (Hell and heaven) (1966)
  • Bicz boży (God's whip) (1967)
  • Lalka (The Doll) (1969)
  • Rejs (Cruise) (1970)
  • Bolesław Śmiały (King Boleslaus the Bold) (1972)
  • Opętanie (Obsession) (1973)
  • Ziemia obiecana (Land of Promise) (1974)
  • Smuga cienia (The shadow line) (1976)
  • Ptaki ptakom (Bords to birds) (1977)
  • Barwy ochronne (Camouflage) (1977)
  • Spirala (Spiral) (1978)
  • Rodzina Polanieckich (TV Series) (1978)
  • Le Roi et l'Oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) (1980)
  • Przypadek (Blind chance) (1982)
  • Paradigma (1985)
  • Salsa (1988)
  • Gdzieśkolwiek jest, jesliś jest (Wherever you are, if you are) (1988)
  • Stan posiadania (Inventory) (1989)
  • Życie za życie (about Maximilian Kolbe) (1991)
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
  • Dotknięcie ręki (A touch of the hand) (1992)
  • Death and the Maiden (1994)
  • The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
  • Deceptive Charm (1996)
  • Brat naszego Boga (Our God's brother) (1997)
  • The Truman Show (1998) (parts from Requiem Father Kolbe)
  • The Ninth Gate (1999)
  • Pan Tadeusz (1999)
  • Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
  • Le Pianiste (2002)
  • Zemsta (Revenge) (2002)
  • We Own the Night (2007)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Czerwińska, I., Mass for Peace, The Warsaw Voice, 16 December 2001. (accessed 1 October 2007)

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