Kramer Lawrence, the author of Beyond The Soundtrack: Representing Music In Cinema, described Szpilman as “he is a man who lives only for music.” Evidently, he chose to perform certain music pieces that closely portray his current situation. In total, four famous music pieces are played in the film. The first piano piece played at the Warsaw radio station is Chopin’s Nocturne in C-Sharp minor. Szpilman performed this piece calmly and softly in a slow tempo, which expresses his peaceful life as a pianist. Interestingly, this music was never played throughout the film until when the war was finally over and Szpilman returned back to his normal life as a pianist. The title of the music that was played when Szpilman discovers the abandoned house