Thursday, 19 June 2008
Krzysztof Komeda
Artist: Krzysztof Komeda
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Discography:
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Year: 2005
Tracks: 20
Rosemary's Baby
Year:
Tracks: 18
Jazz player and cinema composer Krzysztof Komeda is topper known for his film stacks for the movies of Roman Polanski and Ingmar Bergman. Born Krzysztof Trzcinski in 1931, he victimised "Komeda" as his last name because of Communism disfavour with malarkey music. Professionally an ear, nose, and throat specialist, Komeda composed and played jazz piano, and was well received at the 1956 Sopot Jazz Festival. Komeda's boss musical accomplishments were in dislodge jazz. Komeda performed and recorded with trumpeter Tomasz Stanko (from 1963 on) and Swedish tenor saxist Bernt Rosengren. His record album Astigmatic (1965) is acknowledged as his masterpiece. His best-known work, however, was in the kingdom of plastic film tons, which he focused on increasingly in the lowest years earlier his death. He scored over 40 films for directors including Polanski, Bergman, Andrzej Wajda, Henning Carlsen, and more than. After composing the score for Polanski's renowned American flick debut, Rosemary's Baby, Komeda was severely injured in a car crash in Los Angeles. After rising from a comatoseness, Komeda returned to his married woman, Zofia, in Warsaw, and died in 1969, non in time 40 long time old. In 1998, the Power Brothers label reissued the much-hailed Memory of Bach, 1967's Nighttime, Daytime Requiem, and Mojo Ballada, which includes a different recording of the music for Polanski's Knife in the Water and pieces for Miroslaw Kijowicz's cartoons.
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