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Paul Smaczny

Producer, Director, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1957 (69 years)
Paul Smaczny is a German-based documentary film-maker and a producer of concert and opera recordings. His latest work is the award-winning Knowledge is the Beginning, about the West-Eastern Divan orchestra.

Known For

  • El sistema
  • Knowledge Is the Beginning
  • John Cage: Journeys in Sound
  • Die Thomaner - Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
  • Great Performances
  • Joana Mallwitz - Momentum
  • The Lost Paradise: Arvo Pärt, Robert Wilson
  • Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence
  • The Three Lives of Clara Schumann
  • Brandenburg Concertos
  • Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation
  • Claudio Abbado: Die Stille nach der Musik
  • Americans in Pyongyang
  • Meisterwerke der klassischen Musik
  • Beethovenmania
  • The Unanswered Ives: American Pioneer of Music
  • Orlando Paladino
  • Triegel trifft Cranach: Malen im Widerstreit der Zeiten
  • What to Do with All This Love
  • Martha Argerich spielt Schumann
  • Rock Chicks - I Am Not Female to You
  • Wagners Meistersänger, Hitlers Siegfried

Filmography

2026
Triegel trifft Cranach: Malen im Widerstreit der Zeiten
2024
Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 9 - Gewandhaus zu Leipzig · as Executive Producer
2024
ARTE Concert - Blomstedt dirigiert Bruckners Symphonie Nr. 9
2024
Staatsballett Berlin: Bovary - Tanzstück von Christian Spuck · as Executive Producer
2024
Joana Mallwitz - Momentum
2024
Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte · as Executive Producer
2024
Georg Friedrich Händel: Wassermusik Suiten I-III · as Executive Producer
2023
Rock Chicks - I Am Not Female to You · as Executive Producer
2023
Zwischen Zeiten und Welten: Eine Klangreise durch Rumänien · as Executive Producer
2022
Symphonie Nr. 1 Winterträume - Tschaikowsky · as Executive Producer
2022
What to Do with All This Love · as Executive Producer
2022
Grenzgänger - Drei Positionen im zeitgenössischen Tanz · as Executive Producer
2022
Winterreise
2021
Josquin des Préz zum 500. Todestag - Amarcord · as Executive Producer
2021
Musik für die Ewigkeit: Bachs Brandenburgische Konzerte
2021
Der Freischütz · as Executive Producer
2020
Beethovenmania
2020
Silenced: Composers in Revolutionary Russia
2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: Arien, Solos und Duette
2019
The Three Lives of Clara Schumann
2018
The Unanswered Ives: American Pioneer of Music
2018
Dvořák: From the New World
2018
Maestras: The Long Journey of Women to the Podium
2017
Ludwig van Beethoven: Tripelkonzert op.56
2017
Midori Plays Bach. Sonatas And Partitas For Solo Violin
2016
Ayham Ahmad: The Pianist of Yarmouk
2015
The Lost Paradise: Arvo Pärt, Robert Wilson · as Executive Producer
2015
Satiesfictions: Promenades with Erik Satie
2014
In Between: Isang Yun in North and South Korea
2012
Die Thomaner - Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
2010
Pierre Boulez and the Lucerne Festival Academy: Inheriting the Future of Music
2009
Orlando Paladino
2009
Anne-Sophie Mutter: Encounters with Mendelssohn · as Executive Producer
2009
Händel Celebration Concert
2008
El sistema
2008
Bach: Goldberg Variations · as Executive Producer
2008
Waldbühne 2008 - Los ritmos de la noche
2008
Le sacre du printemps
2008
Brandenburg Concertos
2008
Americans in Pyongyang · as Executive Producer
2008
Wagners Meistersänger, Hitlers Siegfried
2008
Rhapsodies
2007
Die lustige Witwe
2007
Venezuelan Brass Ensemble: Gran Fanfare
2007
Soulscapes: The Choreographer Uwe Scholz
2007
Kurt Masur: A Life in Music
2007
Meisterwerke der klassischen Musik (TV Series)
2007
Sheherazade: An Oriental Night with the Berliner Philharmoniker
2007
Daniel Barenboim: Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1-5
2006
Max Raabe & Palastorchester - In der Berliner Waldbühne · as Executive Producer
2006
Martha Argerich spielt Schumann
2006
Carmen
2006
A Mozart Celebration from Berlin
2005
Un ballo in maschera
2005
Knowledge Is the Beginning
2005
Play Bach... and More · as Executive Producer
2004
Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation · as Executive Producer
2003
Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Lisbon
2001
Europakonzert 2001 from Istanbul
1996
Italienische Nacht - Italian Night
1995
Gloria in excelsis Deo - Der Thomanerchor singt Weihnachtslieder
1971
Great Performances (TV Series)

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