Artist's albums
A Collection of His Work
1992 · album
Bram Stoker's Draculla
2022 · EP
Wilcze echa
2022 · album
Sami swoi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2021 · album
Kilar: Missa pro pace
2018 · album
Camerata Silesia Sings Kilar
2013 · album
Kilar: Magnificat - Victoria
2013 · album
Requiem pour le Père Kolbe
2013 · album
Kilar, W.: Missa Pro Pace
2010 · album
Kilar, W.: September Symphony / Lament
2010 · album
Kilar, W.: September Symphony / Lament
2010 · single
Album Polski cz. III
2008 · album
Le Roi Et L'Oiseau (Bande Originale Du Film)
2007 · album
Kilar: Angelus / Exodus / Krzesany
2002 · single
Kilar: Angelus / Exodus / Krzesany
2002 · album
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Biography
Even though many listeners may be most familiar with the Polish composer Wojciech Kilar's work through his score for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), his compositions also include numerous highly successful orchestral works, in addition to many vocal and chamber pieces. Following a rigorous education in Eastern Europe, the composer began to take several prizes, and continued to do so throughout his career. His formal training in piano and composition began in 1950 at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice with B. Woytowicz and continued with him at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków between 1955-1958. During the same period of time (1957), he attended summer classes at Darmstadt. Shortly after he completed his training with Woytowicz, he received a French government scholarship that allowed him to further his education in composition, this time in Paris with Nadia Boulanger (1959 - 1960). The year he finished these studies, his Oda Béla Bartók in memoriam gained him the Lili Boulanger Award. Prizes that followed included the Polish Composer's Union Award (1975), the Polish State Award (1980), the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Prize (1984), an ASCAP Award (1992), and the Sonderpreis des Kulturpreis Schlesein des Landes Niedersachsen (1996). Kilar's orchestral (symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos, etc.) and stage works (11 scores total) are very widely recorded, the former exclusively under the Milan label and the latter under a wider selection of recording companies like Olympia, Erato, London, Silva Screen, and Varese Sarabande. Of his compositions that have been recorded, most are excerpts from his film scores, which include L'année du soleil calme, La chronique des événements amoureux, Full Gallop (Cwal), Hypothesis (Hipoteza) (1973), Land of Promise (Ziemia Obiecana) (1975), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and La terre de la grande promesse.