Known For
Sound
Born
Nov 23, 1933
Died
Mar 29, 2020
Place of Birth
Dębica, Podkarpackie, Polska
Credits
55 titles
Krzysztof Penderecki
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Highways And Motorways
Music
Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper
Music
Day
Music
As Tristes Lágrimas do Crocodilo
Music
Beth Gibbons: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
Persephone
Music
Demon
Original Music Composer
Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki
Self
De Piraeus a Gaza
Music
Inventorium of Traces
Music
Bolimorphy
Music
Martin Slivka: The Man Who Planted Trees
Katyn
Original Music Composer
Poles Poles
The House with Arched Windows
Music
Sternstunde Kunst
Self
Silence
Music
Sonata for Hitler
Music
The Lonely Voice of Man
Music
The Preservation of Secret
Original Music Composer
Marked
Music
Cada ver es...
Original Music Composer
The Shining
Music
Threnos
Original Music Composer
Simiterio do Adão e Eva
Music
The Devils of Loudun
Writer
Les Gauloises bleues
Original Music Composer
Krzysztof Penderecki
Himself(unconfirmed)
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Original Music Composer
Silence
Music
Conscience
Music
The Codes
Music
Zejście do piekła
Music
The Saragossa Manuscript
Original Music Composer
The Charm of the Wheels
Music
Keeping a Distance
Music
Icarus
Music
Icons
Music
Hamlet x 5
Music
Passacaglia Dedicated to Royal Sigmond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle
Original Music Composer
Sweet Rhythms
Music
Portrait of a Conductor
Music
Interpretacje
Music
Painters of the Baltic Coast
Original Music Composer
Don Juan
Music
King Midas
Music
Trap
Music
Bitterness
Music
Kidnapping
Music
Space Travel
Music