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Władysław Szpilman (Polish pronunciation: [vwaˈdɨswaf ˈʂpʲilman] ⓘ; 5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish-Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor.
Dec 17, 2010 · http://www.szpilman.net Wladyslaw Szpilman plays F. Chopin: Nocturne C sharp-minor Op. posth. Recorded in Warsaw at home in 1997. Cameraman Jaroslaw Mazur.
Nov 6, 2021 · Wladyslaw Szpilman was a Jewish pianist living in Warsaw during WW2 whose musical abilities led German officer Wilm Hosenfeld to save his life. He and his family were placed in the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of all the Jewish Ghettos established by the Nazis during WWII.
Władysław Szpilman, ps. „Al Legro” (ur. 5 grudnia 1911 w Sosnowcu , zm. 6 lipca 2000 w Warszawie ) – polski kompozytor, pianista i aranżer żydowskiego pochodzenia.
Władysław Szpilman. Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000) was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, and studied piano in the early 1930s at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and at the Berlin Academy of Arts. In Berlin he was instructed by Leonid Kreutzer and Artur Schnabel.
Based on the autobiographical book by Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist tells the story of Szpilman's struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. Szpilman, a talented Jewish pianist and composer, witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto.
Jun 7, 2000 · Władyslaw Szpilman, pseudonym Al Legro, pianist and composer; born 5 December 1911 in Sosnowiec; died 6 July 2000 in Warsaw. After first piano lessons with his mother Szpilman studied the piano under Józef Smidowicz and theory and counterpoint under Michał Biernacki at the Frederick Chopin Higher School of Music in Warsaw in 1926-30.
Władysław Szpilman. Towards the end of World War II, in a burnt-out villa in the destroyed city of Warsaw, the Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman faced a German officer before an out-of-tune piano. Szpilman had not bathed in months, and had been living off scraps for more than a year.
Eminent Polish-Jewish composer and pianist Władysław Szpilman was a household name in pre-WWII Warsaw, but it was his miraculous story of survival during the war that would later form the basis...
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish-Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw.
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