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Władysław Szpilman

Personal Info

Known For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

December 5, 1911(88)

Day of Death

July 6, 2000

Place of Birth

Sosnowiec, Poland

Also Known As

Wladyslaw Szpilman

Władysław Szpilman

Sound

Biography

Władysław Szpilman was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia