Editing Zbigniew Preisner (section)

==Career==
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 People's Republic|Polish]] and French versions of a poem by [[Wisława Szymborska]], a Polish [[Nobel Prize]]-winning poet.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/en/artist/zbigniew-preisner |title=Zbigniew Preisner |access-date=2019-09-24}}</ref>

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 (1993 movie)|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 Award|César]] in 1996 for his work on [[Jean Becker (director)|Jean Becker]]'s ''[[Élisa (1995 film)|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 (film)|The Island on Bird Street]]''.<ref name="Berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1997/03_preistr_ger_1997/03_Preistraeger_1997.html |title=Berlinale: 1997 Prize Winners |access-date=2012-01-08 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> 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)|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 (film)|The Tree of Life]]''. The ''Dies Irae'' from this Requiem appears in the film ''[[La Grande Bellezza]]'', directed by [[Paolo Sorrentino]]<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web|title=The Great Beauty |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-great-beauty-la-grande-bellezza-mw0002618733|access-date=April 2, 2015|work=Allmusic}}</ref> and in the second season of the television series ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]''.<ref name=Tunefind>{{cite web|title=The Crown |url=https://www.tunefind.com/show/the-crown/season-2/55050|access-date=December 30, 2017|work=Tunefind}}</ref>

Preisner composed the theme music for the ''[[People's Century]]'', a monumental 26-part [[documentary film|documentary]] made jointly in 1994 by the [[BBC]] television network in United Kingdom and the [[Public Broadcasting Service|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 (choir)|Libera]].<ref>emiclassics.com [http://www.emiclassics.com/releaseabout.php?rid=45269 Silence, Night and Dreams release info]</ref>