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Wojciech Kilar
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Wojciech Kilar (17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer. His film scores have won many honors including the best score award for the music to Ziemia obiecana (The Promised Land) in 1975, followed by the Prix Louis Delluc in 1980 for the music to Le Roi et l'Oiseau / The King and the Mockingbird, and an award at the Cork International Film Festival for the music to From A Far Country (1981) about the life of Pope John Paul II. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1993 which received the ASCAP Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Producers in Los Angeles, nominated also for the Saturn Award for Best Music in a science fiction, fantasy, or horror film in San Francisco in 1993. In 2003, he won the César Award for Best Film Music written for The Pianist, at France's 28th César Awards Ceremony in 2003, for which he also received a BAFTA nomination. The film's soundtrack featured his "Moving to the Ghetto Oct. 31, 1940" with the other 10 tracks being works by Frédéric Chopin. The music in the movie includes pieces by Beethoven and Bach. Wojciech Kilar was born on 17 July 1932 in Lwów (then Poland; since 1945 Lviv in UkrSSR, now Ukraine). His father was a gynecologist and his mother was a theater actress. Kilar spent most of his life from 1948 in the city of Katowice in Southern Poland, married (from April 1966 to November 2007) to Barbara Pomianowska, a pi
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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
KILAR: Bram Stoker's Dracula / Death and the Maiden / King of the Last Days
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Kilar: Bram Stoker's Dracula / Death and the Maiden
Bram Stoker`s Dracula Ost
Le roi et l'oiseau (Bande originale du film)
Requiem Father Kolbe
Le Roi et l'Oiseau
The Ninth Gate
A Collection of His Work
KILAR: Angelus / Exodus / Krzesany
The Best (disc 1)