Władysław Szpilman
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist and classical composer who was
born in Sosnowiec, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, in 1911. He achieved early
professional recognition in 1935 after joining Polish Radio as a house pianist
and is famous for surviving the Holocaust in Warsaw and for his life story's
adaptation into the film The Pianist (2002). Szpilman studied at the Chopin
Academy of Music in Warsaw and later at the Academy of Arts in Berlin under
Artur Schnabel and Leonid Kreutzer. Following the end of World War II, he
resumed his career at Polish Radio in 1945, ope...
