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LIFE AND WORK Preisner studied History and Philosophy in Kraków . Never having received formal Music Lesson s, he taught himself about music by listening and transcribing parts from Record s. His compositional style represents a distinctively spare form of Tonal Neo-Romanticism . Jean Sibelius is an acknowledged influence. Preisner is best known for the music he composed for films by Kieślowski. His Song for the Unification of Europe, based on the Greek text of '' includes a setting of Polish and French versions of a poem by Wisława Szymborska , Poland's Nobel Prize -winning poet. After working with fellow Pole '', Preisner was hired by producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score for '' The Secret Garden '', directed by Holland. Although Preisner is most closely associated with Kieślowski, he has written for other directors, winning a '', and the Silver Bear from the 1997 Berlin Film Festival 1997 for '' The Island On Bird Street ''. 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. He 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 Great Britain 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 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, due for release in autumn 2007, will feature the lead singer of Madredeus , Teresa Salgueiro. NOMENCLATURE The Song for the Unification of Europe (1993) heard in Blue is incorrectly called a "concerto" in some English translations of the screenplay. A Concerto is an instrumental piece; Preisner's Song, very obviously, incorporates singers. VAN DEN BUDENMAYER Van den Budenmayer is a fictitious eighteenth-century Dutch composer created by Preisner and director Preisner said Van den Budenmayer is a pseudonym he and Kieslowski invented "because we both loved the Netherlands". Music "by" the Dutch composer plays a role in three Kieslowski films. The first is '''' (1991), where circumstances in the story prevent the solo from finishing. MOST NOTABLE WORKS Orchestral works
Music for solo instruments
Film scores
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