Preisner was innate inside Bielsko-Biała, Poland. He exposed history and philosophy at Krakow, and never received formal lessons around music, instead teaching himself by copying down parts from either records.

Preisner is better known for his functiin on Kieślowski's film. the bit of of people picture show produce information to a fictitious Dutch composer per title of Van den Budenmayer, & Preisner writes a music which in the plot of the picture is said to become by Budenmayer.

Fallowing working using fellow Pole, Agnieszka Holland on Kieślowski's Three Colors: Blue, Preisner was hired by producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score for The Secret Garden, directed by Holland.

Although Preisner is virtually all closely associated sustaining Kieślowski, he has written for more directors, winning the César in 1996 for his work in Jean Becker's Elisa. He has won the total of more awards, including a second César inside 1994 for Three Colors: Red, and a Silver Bear from either a Berlin Film Festival in 1997 for The Island on Bird Street.

Joni Mitchell's symphonic-rock CD "Travelogue," released in 2002, includes a version of Preisner's "Song For The Unification of Europe" written for Three Colors: Blue.

Inside 1998, Requiem for The Friend, Preisner's foremost big shell function non written for film, was premiered. It was originally designed as a narrative function to exist as written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz and directed by Kieślowski, but fallowing Kieślowski's dying, it instead became the rather memorial to him.

He composed a theme music for the ''People's Century'', a monumental twenty-six part documentary made jointly in 1994 by the BBC television network in Great Britain and the PBS television network in the United States.

Preisner's style is au fond Romantic, with Jean Sibelius being an acknowledged influence.