He adopted his wife's surname after their wedding. Never having received official music education, he trained himself about music by listening and transcribing parts from records. Jean Sibelius is an acknowledged power. In 1998, Funeral song for My Pal, Preisner's first large scale work not on paper for film, premiered.

He has also worked with director Thomas Vinterberg on the 2003 movie It's All About Love and provided orchestration intended for David Gilmour's 2006 book On An Island. Preisner said Van lair Budenmayer is a pseudonym he plus Kieslowski invented "because we both loved the Netherlands". Melody "by" the Dutch composer theater a position in three Kieslowski films. The primary is The Decalogue (1988).

The Song's E slight high-pitched solo is itself prefigured in an earlier film, The Twice Life of Veronique (1991), where circumstances in the story prevent the solo from finishing.