Krzysztof Komeda

Krzysztof Komeda is a Compositeur of music Polish.

He was born in Poland, in Ostrów Wielkopolski close to Poznan in 1931, he died in Los Angeles, the USA in December 1968. It was a type-setter of jazz, film musics, he was also pianist. He is incinerated with Warsaw on April 23rd, 1969.

Heritage: Excel as much type-setter of Jazz that film musics, now forgotten, it left an enormous heritage on the film music by composing his two key musics for films of Roman Polanski: Rosemary' S Baby and the Ball of the vampires ( the fearless vampire killers ). In these two films, we can notice the formidable uses of the voices which really plunge us in the environment of these two films. For Rosemary' S baby , it knew composed a music which just like gives off film, a true tension of terror with the use of the voices or of the sounds of the threatening coppers. These styles of musics for the Films of horror were often copied thereafter (we can find resemblances in the BO of Alien composed by Jerry Goldsmith), which proves that Kzysztof Komeda inspired the type-setters the muiques ones of horror films. We also find in all its bo pieces influenced by its career of jazzman.

Career as a type-setter of film musics: In 1958, the young relisator Roman Polanski, carries out its first short film intended for the public Two men and a cupboard . At that time, Komeda is already one of the pianists of the most considered Polish jazz, its reputation will make it engage by Roman Polanski for " Two men and a armoire" who is the first film music composed by Komeda. We find in the music of this court - measuring, environment jazz and variety of the Fifties. Then other musics of short-measurings of Polanski follow: " the large one and the maigre" , " mammifères" , and one of the most beautiful musics written by Komeda, " When the angels tombent". In 1962, Polanski attacks first feature film the Knife in water . Of course, Komeda is voyage. Music of the " knife in the eau" point out really the career of Komda as jazzman: the orchestra is composed of a saxophone, a piano, a Contrebasse and a battery. Moreover, certain pieces that Komeda had written at its time jazz, are re-used in film.

In 1965, he writes the music of a film with sketches " Most beautiful Swindles of the world " (short-measurings of Godard, Chabrol inter alia), for the short-measuring of Polanski " the river of diamants". He will write a topic " breakfast At tiffany' s" who will be taken again by Henry Mancini for the film Diamants on settee . In 1966, Polanski carries out Cul-de-sac , door-close mixing the picturesque one and the comic one. For this film, Komeda composes a band with the image of film: out of the commun run and funny. The topic is interpreted by some keyboards, a battery, and a squeaking Saxophone which interprets a repetitive topic, but astute. The instruments are varied (Percussions, Trompette, double bass…), and we still find the universe jazzy of Komeda. In 1967, Komeda writes one of its best partitions, that of following film of Polanski, " the ball of the vampires". It is besides about the only made up music parKomeda which is completely orchestral, and does not contain any piece jazzy. But that does not prevent the music from being missed. Far from there! The choruses envoûtants and the Instruments wind really make us travel in this world where death dances with the comic one. Lastly, in 1968, its last made up music for a film before dying, was that of the film " Rosemary' S baby". With " when the angels tombent" and " the ball of the vampires" , it is undoubtedly about the best music than wrote Komeda. The principal musical topic is a waltz-lullaby, sung by Mia Farrow. The remainder of the BO is nourished of a blackness which gives the perfect tension for the images of film. It is, as for " the ball of the vampires" , made up of voice, as well as distressing echoes of notes of piano and double bass, on a bottom of trumpets " criantes". It is with " Rosemary' S baby" that just like its life, the career of Komeda is completed.

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