Joanna Bruzdowicz
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Joanna Bruzdowicz | |
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Born | Warsaw, Poland | 17 May 1943
Died | 3 November 2021 | (aged 78)
Joanna Bruzdowicz (17 May 1943 – 3 November 2021[1]) was a Polish composer.
Life
Born in
After completing her studies in France, she settled in Belgium with her husband, Horst-Jürgen Tittel, former top advisor to the president of the European Commission. Together, they created the 36-episode German TV series Stahlkammer Zürich for which Bruzdowicz wrote over 15 hours of music. They lived in the South of France. They have three sons: Mark, Jan and Jörg Tittel.
Artistic range
As a composer, she devoted her attention to opera, symphonic and chamber music, works for children, and music for film and television. She wrote four concerti and numerous chamber pieces, as well as over 25 hours of film music. Her compositions were featured on 12 CDs and over 20 LPs; she was featured in TV programs produced in Belgium, France, Germany and Poland.
Her output included several operas which brought to the stage some of the greatest works of European literature (e.g. The Penal Colony, after Franz Kafka, 1972; The Women of Troy after Euripides, 1973; and The Gates of Paradise, after Jerzy Andrzejewski, 1987).
Bruzdowicz had a long-standing creative relationship with French film director
More recently, her music could be heard in her second collaboration with director Yves Angelo, Les Ames Grises (engl. The Grey Souls), the last movie starring French comedian Jacques Villeret.
Selected recordings
- Leila oratorio to text by Christiane Schapira
Film score
- 1997: An Air So Pure
Sources
References
External links
- Interview with Joanna Bruzdowicz, 7 May 1991
- Joanna Bruzdowicz's biography on Cdmc website
- Joanna Bruzdowicz discography at Discogs
- Joanna Bruzdowicz at IMDb