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A musician and composer of classical music, Poland's Wojciech Kilar is much better known as a composer of film scores. Active in Poland since the late 1950s, Wojciech Kilar achieved international renown with his score for the 1980 animated film The King and the Bird, which won him the Prix Louis-Delluc. His best-known works include Dracula (1992), La Jeune fille et la mort (1994), La Neuvième porte (1999) and Le Pianiste, for which he won the César for best film score in 2002. Made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2013, Wojciech Kilar died on December 29 in Katowice, Poland, of cancer.
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