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Zbigniew Preisner

1955 - Today

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Zbigniew Preisner (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈprajsnɛr]; born 20 May 1955 as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as well as the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zbigniew Preisner has received more than 366,888 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Zbigniew Preisner is the 529th most popular composer (up from 597th in 2019), the 415th most popular biography from Poland (up from 474th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Composer.

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  • 370k

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  • 55.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 529 out of 1,216Before him are Gershon Kingsley, Jean Françaix, Alexandre Guilmant, Johann Georg Pisendel, Eleni Karaindrou, and Riz Ortolani. After him are Christian Sinding, Joachim Raff, Eugen Doga, Agostino Steffani, Gabriel Pierné, and Pietro Nardini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 92Before him are Maria Shriver, Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, Mira Furlan, Mariya Takeuchi, Ron Johnson, and Hans-Peter Briegel. After him are Debra Winger, Valdis Zatlers, David Julius, Jeff Daniels, Billy Milligan, and Asif Ali Zardari.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 415 out of 1,454Before him are Wolf Messing (1899), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), Emil Krebs (1867), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), and Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784). After him are Jerzy Hoffman (1932), Moses Isserles (1520), Eduard Strasburger (1844), Barbara Jagiellon (1478), Elisabeth Becker (1923), and Hans Woellke (1911).

Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 15Before him are Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Martin Agricola (1486), Józef Elsner (1769), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), and Alexandre Tansman (1897). After him are Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Franz Waxman (1906), Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), and Josef Tal (1910).