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Zbigniew Preisner

1955 - Today

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Zbigniew Preisner (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈprajsnɛr]; born 20 May 1955 as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as well as the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He is a member of the French Film Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zbigniew Preisner is the 687th most popular composer (down from 593rd in 2019), the 571st most popular biography from Poland (down from 501st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 687 out of 1,451. Before him are Francisco Guerrero, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Jeremiah Clarke, Oskar Merikanto, Giovanni Battista Vitali, and Toshi Ichiyanagi. After him are Alonso Mudarra, Jakov Gotovac, Jerome Kern, Maurice Emmanuel, Josip Runjanin, and Augusta Holmès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 148. Before him are Kazuyoshi Nakamura, Jean-Hugues Anglade, David Axelrod, Daniel Bertoni, Kim Hae-sook, and James Gosling. After him are Steven Wright, Mísia, Akira Nishino, Mayumi Tanaka, Eric Schmidt, and Tūheitia Paki.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 571 out of 1,694. Before him are Werner Lorenz (1891), Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819), Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), Bolesław the Pious (1225), Stanisław Konarski (1700), and Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793). After him are Edward Ochab (1906), Joseph Serchuk (1919), Andrew Bobola (1591), George Adamski (1891), Kurt Goldstein (1878), and Yitzhak Sadeh (1890).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 22. Before him are Alexandre Tansman (1897), Johann Schobert (1720), Franz Waxman (1906), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Karol Lipiński (1790), and Andrzej Panufnik (1914). After him are Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Josef Tal (1910), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Carl Schuricht (1880), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), and Arnold Mendelssohn (1855).

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