Zbigniew Preisner
Soundtrack
The next Zbigniew Preisner concert is scheduled for Sunday, September 28, 2025 at Barbican Concert Hall in London, United Kingdom. See all 1 upcoming concerts
![Listen to Kyrie Eleison - Byzantine Version (feat. Choir of Chanters The Maestros of the Psaltic Art & Achilleas G. Chaldaekes) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] by Zbigniew Preisner, see lyrics, music video & more!](/mkimage/image/thumb/Music125/v4/69/19/3c/69193c31-2c01-93a8-509e-573ff4e78a12/cover.jpg/375x375bb.webp "Listen to Kyrie Eleison - Byzantine Version (feat. Choir of Chanters The Maestros of the Psaltic Art & Achilleas G. Chaldaekes) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] by Zbigniew Preisner, see lyrics, music video & more!")
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![Listen to La double vie de Véronique (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Remastered] by Zbigniew Preisner](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music124/v4/86/37/ca/8637ca73-f1c4-2a7c-32b5-aca8c3d80255/cover.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to La double vie de Véronique (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Remastered] by Zbigniew Preisner")
About Zbigniew Preisner
Hometown
Poland
Born
1955
Genre
Soundtrack
Poland's preeminent contemporary film composer, Zbigniew Preisner was born May 20, 1955 in Bielsko-Biala; while studying history and philosophy at the University of Cracow he began writing music, and in 1981 scored his first picture, Antoni Krauze's Prognoza pogody. Krauze introduced Preisner to filmmaker Krzystof Kieslowski, with whom he enjoyed his most fruitful collaboration; beginning with 1985's Bez konca, the two worked together on a series of projects including the 1987 television miniseries Dekalog and the 1991 feature La Double vie de Véronique which brought them both international acclaim. The latter picture introduced Preisner's musical alter ego Van den Budenmayer, a fictitious Dutch composer whose "work" surfaced in subsequent projects. 1991 also saw Preisner step outside Eastern Europe to work with Brazil's Hector Babenco on At Play in the Fields of the Lord; he subsequently worked with filmmakers including Louis Malle (Damage) and Agnieszka Holland (Olivier, Olivier and The Secret Garden. In 1993 he reunited with Kieslowski for Bleu, the first chapter in the director's celebrated "Trois Coleurs" trilogy; Preisner's score for the concluding chapter, 1994's Rouge, earned a Cesar, the French equivalent of an Academy Award. He and Kieslowski were scheduled to begin work on a trilogy exploring themes of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory when the director died on March 13, 1996; Preisner later celebrated Kieslowski's life and work with the release of Requiem for My Friend. ~ Jason Ankeny
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