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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