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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Mans Survival in Warsaw, (Smierc Miasta)
Memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman,
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a composer, a pianist, and an animator of cultural life.
He studied in the Berlin Academy of Music.
Wladyslaw szpilman biography pianista
In , 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 The unabridged edition of the book, published in Germany in , 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).
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