Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek obit

Jan AP Kaczmarek is dead. He was a composer and Oscar winner for the music for the film "Finding Neverland". "He was a warrior until the end"

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Jan AP Kaczmarek - creator of film music and Oscar winner - has died.


The outstanding composer had been struggling with the disease for a long time, and the information about his death was provided by the Polish Music Foundation.

After a long and serious illness, my husband Jan AP Kaczmarek died. He was a warrior until the end, trusting that he would recover and share his work with us. I stayed with him until the end. He died surrounded by love. The value in which he believed most strongly

– wrote the deceased's wife in the Polish Music Foundation.

Jan AP Kaczmarek passed away at the age of 71. For a long time he had been struggling with MSA, i.e. multi-system atrophy, which is an incurable disease.

Kaczmarek was the author of many film soundtracks, and he received an Oscar in 2005 for the music for the production of "Finding Neverland".

Avant-garde artist

Jan AP Kaczmarek was born on April 29, 1953 in Konin. He came from a musical family. His grandfather was a violinist, who performed, among others, live music for movies in the cinema. As a child, Kaczmarek learned to play the piano. He achieved his first success in the high school in Konin, for which he composed the school anthem, and also created music for school theater performances. Dreaming of a career as a diplomat, he began studying law at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań.

He started his musical career by composing a cabaret song for the high school theater "Ósemki" in Konin.

In his youth, he dreamed of a diplomatic career and chose law as his first field of study. He finished them with the awareness of a mistake, already knowing that diplomacy in the Polish People's Republic had little in common with the romantic models from his youthful reading.

– wrote the website culture.pl.

Apparently he changed his mind about his career after completing an internship at Jerzy Grotowski's Laboratory Theater. Another avant-garde theater with which he collaborated in the 1970s was the Teatr Ósmego Dnia. There he created the chamber Orchestra of the Eighth Day. During a concert tour in the USA, they recorded the LP "Music for the End" in 1982 for the Chicago-based independent label Flying Fish Records.

In 1989, Kaczmarek left for Los Angeles.

In 2004, he established the Rozbitek Institute - a working place for meetings of film, music and theater artists. The composer himself supervised the construction of the Institute. The facility is located in the village of Rozbitek, 60 km west of Poznań (Greater Poland Voivodeship).

In 2005, he received an Oscar for the music for the film "Finding Finder" by Marc Forster. He is also the author of music for such films as: "Total Eclipse" and "Washington Square" by Agnieszka Holland, "Hania" by Janusz Kamiński, "Horsemen - Riders of the Apocalypse" by Jonas Akerlund, "Until the grave" by Aaron Schneider and " Irena Sendler's Children" by John Kent Harrison.

Kaczmarek was the creator of the Transatlantyk festival, the first edition of which took place in Poznań in the summer of 2011.

In recent years he has composed music, among others: to "Valley of the Gods" by Lech Majewski (2019), "Magnezja" by Maciej Bochniak (2020), "The Death of Zygielbojm" by Ryszard Brylski (2021) and "Van Gogh" by Daniel Fridell.

 

Works

Film

Year     Title

1993    White Marriage

Doppelgänger

1994    Gospel According to Harry

Dead Girl

1995    Total Eclipse

1996    Bliss

1997            Washington Square

1999    Aimée & Jaguar

The Third Miracle

2000    Lost Souls

2001    Quo Vadis

Edges of the Lord

2002            Unfaithful

2004    Finding Neverland

2006    Who Never Lived

2007    The Visitor

Hania

Evening

2008    The Karamazovs

Passchendaele

2009            Horsemen

City Island

Get Low

Hachiko: A Dog's Story

2010    Leonie

2012    The Time Being

2013            Tajemnica Westerplatte

2013    Joanna

2014            Inbetween Worlds

2014            Dancing Before the Enemy: How a Teenage Boy Fooled the Nazis and Lived

2016    La Habitación (Tales of Mexico)

2018    Paul, Apostle of Christ

2019    Valley of the Gods

2019            Underage Engineers

2020            Magnezja

Television

Year     Title

1993    Night Owl

Empty Cradle

2001    Shot in the Heart

2002    A Soldier's Girl

2006    A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story

2007    War and Peace

2008            Pinocchio

2009    The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

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