Martin Edmund Kiszko (born 9 February 1958) is a British composer,

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

librettist A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major ...

and poet. He is best known for his film and television scores.

Biography

In 1986, Kiszko wrote the score for ''

Zastrozzi, A Romance ''Zastrozzi, A Romance'' is a 1986 four-part British television miniseries starring Tilda Swinton, Mark McGann, and Max Wall based on Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1810 Zastrozzi, eponymous Gothic horror novel. It was produced by Channel Four Films and s ...

'', a

Channel Four Films Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel 4 Television Corporation. The company has been responsible for backing many films made in the UK. The company's first production was ''Walter'', directed by Stephen Frear ...

production of

Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame durin ...

's ''

Zastrozzi ''Zastrozzi: A Romance'' is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author's name, as "by P.B.S.". The first of Shelley's two early ...

''. In 1996, he wrote the music for the documentary series '' Alien Empire'', which was performed for the programme by the

Munich Symphony Orchestra The Munich Symphony Orchestra (Münchner Symphoniker) is a German orchestra based in Munich. The orchestra gives subscription concerts at the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater and, to a lesser degree, at the Philharmonie am Gasteig, a ...

. In 2021, he wrote a 15-part children's podcast called ''King Frank and the Knights of the Eco Quest'' for the radio station

Fun Kids Fun Kids is a national children's and pop digital radio station in the United Kingdom with associated websites, YouTube and podcast channels. It has previously been the winner of the Sony and Arqiva Digital Radio Stations of the year. It is o ...

References

External links

Official website
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Ytene England's Ancient Forest (BBC Natural World)

Green Poems for a Blue Planet
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kiszko, Martin British composers British people of Polish descent 1958 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Musicians from Leeds Alumni of the University of Leeds