Composer Biography : Wladyslaw Szpilman 825 words; works cited

Composer Biography Paper: Wladyslaw Szpilman
"I played Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor. The glassy, tinkling sound of the untuned strings rang through the empty flat and the stairway, floated through the ruins of the villa on the other side of the street and returned as a muted, melancholy echo. When I had finished, the silence seemed even gloomier and more eerie than before. A cat mewed in the street somewhere. I heard a shot down below outside the building - a harsh, loud German noise."
-<Tab/>Wladyslaw Szpilman
Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman "was born 5 December191…