Criminal cpro szpilman biography

Memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman, 1946

Wladyslaw Szpilman was a composer, a pianist, and an animator of cultural life. He studied in the Berlin Academy of Music. In 1933, after Hitler had gained power, Szpilman returned home to Warsaw. He worked as a pianist for Polish Radio, at the same time composing symphonic music and movie soundtracks. He also wrote about one thousand songs.

He described his war experience—the stay in the ghetto and the years spent in hiding in occupied Warsaw—in a book entitled The Death of a City , which had a censored edition in 1946. The unabridged edition of the book, published in Germany in 1998, is entitled The Pianist. One year later it was also published in England, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Japan, and the United States. It appeared on the best-seller lists of such newspapers as the Times (London), the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian (London). Criminal cpro szpilman biography youtube.