Krzysztof Penderecki
Sound
Born 1933-11-23
Died 2020-03-29
Dębica, Podkarpackie, Polska
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Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja. His oeuvre includes five operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works.
After graduating from the Academy of Music in Krakow, he became a teacher there and began his career as a composer in 1959 during the Warsaw Autumn festival. His Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra and the choral work St. Luke Passion have received popular acclaim. His first opera, The Devils of Loudun, was never successful despite repeated revisions. In the mid-1970s, Penderecki became a professor at the Yale School of Music. From the mid-1970s his composition style changed, with his first violin concerto focusing on the semitone and the tritone. His choral work Polish Requiem was written in the 1980s and expanded in 1993 and 2005.
Penderecki won many prestigious awards, including the Prix Italia in 1967 and 1968; the Wihuri Sibelius Prize of 1983; four Grammy Awards in 1987, 1998 (twice), and 2017; the Wolf Prize in Arts in 1987; and the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1992. In 2012, Sean Michaels of The Guardian called him "arguably Poland's greatest living composer". In 2020 the composer's alma mater, the Academy of Music in Kraków, was renamed in his honour.
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Filmography
Other credits
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The Shining
Marked
Katyn
The Charm of the Wheels
Trap
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
King Midas
Sweet Rhythms
The Saragossa Manuscript
Portrait of a Conductor
As Tristes Lágrimas do Crocodilo
Day
The Codes
Silence
Poles Poles
Inventorium of Traces
De Piraeus a Gaza
Demon
Keeping a Distance
Bitterness
Space Travel
Conscience
Icarus
Cada ver es...
Les Gauloises bleues
Simiterio do Adão e Eva
Kaktus
Persephone
Interpretacje
The Lonely Voice of Man
Silence
Kidnapping
The Preservation of Secret
Hamlet x 5
Zejście do piekła
Don Juan
The Devils of Loudun
Highways And Motorways
Sonata for Hitler
The House with Arched Windows
Martin Slivka: The Man Who Planted Trees
The General and the Fly
Beth Gibbons: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper
Icons
Basilisk Encounter
Bulandra and the Devil
Bolimorphy
Painters of the Baltic Coast
Threnos
Passacaglia Dedicated to Royal Sigmond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle
Acting
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Sternstunde Kunst
Krzysztof Penderecki
Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki
Please Find Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Writing
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