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Zbigniew Bargielski

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Zbigniew Bargielski (born 21 January 1937) is a Polish composer and teacher. His works have been performed in many European countries, the United States, Australia and South America. On 24 February 2011 he was awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski with the Medal for Merit to Culture. Life and career Zbigniew Bargielski was born on 21 January 1937 in Łomża. He studied law at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. In 1958 he began studying composition at the State Academy of Music in Warsaw under the guidance of eminent professor Tadeusz Szeligowski, and after his death, he continued with Boleslaw Szabelski in the State Music Academy in Katowice. In the years 1966-1967 he complemented his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and in 1972 at the Hochschule für Musik in Graz. In 1976 he moved to Austria where he studied at music school in Bruck an der Mur. Since 2002 he teaches composition at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, and since 2003 also in Kraków. References

Zbigniew Preisner

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Zbigniew Preisner (; 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. Life Zbigniew Preisner was born in Bielsko-Biała, southern Poland, and studied history and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Never having received formal music lessons, he taught himself music by listening and transcribing parts from records. His compositional style represents a distinctively sparse form of tonal neo-Romanticism. Paganini and Jean Sibelius are acknowledged influences. After working with Kieślowski on Three Colours: Blue, Preisner was hired by the producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score for 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 in 1996 for his work on Jean Becker’s Élisa. He has won a number of other awards, including another César in 1994 for T

Zbyněk Vostřák

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Zbyněk Vostřák (10 June 1920 – 4 August 1985) was a prominent Czech composer of New Music. Life He studied composition privately with Rudolf Karel and was a conducting student of Pavel Dědeček in Prague. From 1939 to 1943 he was a member of the Prague Radio Orchestra. Vostřák held many jobs, including pedagogical jobs and conducting jobs for Czech radio and the National Theatre. He nonetheless spent the majority of his time on his compositions Style Vostřák initiated his work in the generic Romantic style. Beginning with his cycle of songs entitled While Falling Asleep, he turned to dodecaphony and techniques proceeding from this particular principle. In the following years Vostřák employed the style known by the general title of New Music. During the late 1960s and early 1970s he was widely engaged in composing electronic music which he sometimes combined with live performers. During the first stage of his career Vostřák wrote several successful operas and ballets. The following phase featured almost exclusively concert compositions with a predominance of instrumental music. Many of Vostřák’s works are regarded as pioneering achievements in this field. As a result of Czechoslovaki