Wojciech Kilar

The Profile

Wojciech Kilar (1932–2013) was a Polish composer celebrated for both concert works and film scores. He is best known internationally for soundtracks such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Ninth Gate and The Portrait of a Lady.

Kilar wrote music for cinema and concert stages; among his well-known film collaborations are Francis Ford Coppola (Bram Stoker's Dracula), Roman Polanski (The Ninth Gate) and Jane Campion (The Portrait of a Lady).

The available review praises Kilar's Bram Stoker's Dracula soundtrack as a high point of his film music, highlighting its gothic romanticism, dramatic choral and vocal moments, and use as a companion to Stoker's novel. The review is nostalgic and unreservedly positive.