September 1, 2019 is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the combined Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland, which marked the start of World War II. This episode of SoundsReels explores producer and ...

Polish Radio has marked 25 years since the death of Władysław Szpilman, the acclaimed pianist, composer and Holocaust ...

The best movies about musicians dig deeper than what audiences already know on the surface about the artist. The actors portraying the musicians often research the subject's life and try to deliver an ...

A stage adaptation of The Pianist, based on the Władysław Szpilman memoir that was the source of the Oscar-nominated 2002 film, is being developed by director Emily Mann with an eye toward Broadway.

A wide range of personal items belonging to Władysław Szpilman, the famous Polish pianist and composer of Jewish origin whose war-time plight was made by Roman Polanski into the Oscar-winning ...

Władysław Szpilman's Steinway & Sons grand piano has become the highest-sold musical instrument in the history of Poland. At Tuesday's bidding organised by Poland's oldest auction house DESA ...

Also going under the hammer is the circa 1940 Steinway piano on which Szpilman composed some of hundreds of pieces of music before his death. It is expected to fetch up to 60,000 euro ($70,500 ...

The answer might have to do with the story of the film itself. But the moments at which music does and does not sound throughout the film are powerful factors in the telling of Władysław Szpilman's ...