Krzysztof Penderecki
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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Movies (54)
Highways And Motorways
2025 · Music
Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper
2022 · Music
Day
2021 · Music
As Tristes Lágrimas do Crocodilo
2020 · Music
Beth Gibbons: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
2019
Persephone
2016 · Music
Demon
2015 · Original Music Composer
Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki
2014 · Self
De Piraeus a Gaza
2011 · Music
Inventorium of Traces
2009 · Music
Bolimorphy
2008 · Music
Martin Slivka: The Man Who Planted Trees
2007
Katyn
2007 · Original Music Composer
Poles Poles
2003
The House with Arched Windows
2000 · Music
Silence
1991 · Music
Sonata for Hitler
1989 · Music
The Lonely Voice of Man
1987 · Music
The Preservation of Secret
1986 · Original Music Composer
Marked
1984 · Music
Cada ver es...
1983 · Original Music Composer
The Shining
1980 · Music
Threnos
1978 · Original Music Composer
Simiterio do Adão e Eva
1974 · Music
The Devils of Loudun
1969 · Writer, Music
Les Gauloises bleues
1969 · Original Music Composer
Krzysztof Penderecki
1968 · Himself(unconfirmed)
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968 · Original Music Composer
Conscience
1968 · Music
Silence
1968 · Music
The Codes
1966 · Music
Zejście do piekła
1966 · Music
The Saragossa Manuscript
1966 · Original Music Composer
Hamlet x 5
1966 · Music
The Charm of the Wheels
1966 · Music
Icons
1966 · Music
Keeping a Distance
1966 · Music
Passacaglia Dedicated to Royal Sigmond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle
1966 · Original Music Composer
Icarus
1966 · Music
Sweet Rhythms
1965 · Music
Portrait of a Conductor
1965 · Music
Interpretacje
1965 · Music
Painters of the Baltic Coast
1964 · Original Music Composer
Don Juan
1963 · Music
King Midas
1963 · Music
Bitterness
1962 · Music
Trap
1962 · Music
Kidnapping
1962 · Music
Space Travel
1961 · Music
Basilisk Encounter
1961 · Music
The General and the Fly
1961 · Music
Kaktus
1960 · Music
Bulandra and the Devil
1959 · Music
Please Find Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
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