Sound · Original Music Composer · Music · Novel
Born Dec 5, 1911 · Sosnowiec, Poland
Active 1938–2000 · Awards: Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Gold Cross of Merit, Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Zasłużony Działacz Kultury
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he…