Composer Biography Paper: Wladyslaw Szpilman "I played Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor. The glassy, tinkling sound of the untuned strings rang through the empty flat and the stairway, floated through the ruins of the villa on the other side of the street and returned as a muted, melancholy echo. When I had finished, the silence seemed even gloomier and more eerie than before. A cat mewed in the street somewhere. I heard a shot …showed first 75 words of 854 total…

…showed last 75 words of 854 total…part, sparklingly orchestrated in the accompaniment." His amalgamation of serious and popular music is rooted in the stylistic tradition of the twenties, Rhythmic verve and compact forms make Wladyslaw Szpilman's compositions ideally suitable for dance adaptation". (www.boosey.com) Works cited: http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=16207&langid=1&ttype=SNAPSHOT&ttitle=Snapshot Szpilman, Andrzej. Wladyslaw Szpilman "The Pianist" Official Homepage http://www.szpilman.net/