The Spiritual Triumph of Wladyslaw Szpilman: Resistance in the Face of Tragedy
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Wladyslaw Szpilman and Bronislav Gimpel, Polish-American Pianist, 1958 -Andrzej Szpilman
Szpilman wrote the first edition of his memoir “Death of a City”. Published in 1946, it was removed from circulation shorty after due to USSR censors.
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"I will never forgive myself that I was unable to do anything to save them..." |
He continued to compose, and his works have remained popular. In 1961, he founded the International Song Contest in Sopot, Poland, an annual summer event.
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"He wrote several symphonic works and some five hundred popular songs, many of them great hits. He also composed music for children, incidental music for radio plays, and more film scores." |
"For over 50 years the music composed by Wladyslaw Szpilman was a base of the trailer of the Daily Film-News (Polska Kronika Filmowa) in all Polish cinemas." -Andrzej Szpilman
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"By profession he is what they call in Poland ‘a man in whom music lives’: a pianist and composer who has always been an inspiring and significant figure in Polish cultural life."
-Andrzej Szpilman, Personal Interview, 2019