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Krzysztof Penderecki
Dębica, Podkarpackie, Polska
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…
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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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2025
Highways And Motorways
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2022
Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper
Movie Music
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2021
Day
Movie Music
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2020
As Tristes Lágrimas do Crocodilo
Movie Music
- 2019
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2016
Persephone
Movie Music
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2015
Demon
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2014
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2011
De Piraeus a Gaza
Movie Music
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2009
Inventorium of Traces
Movie Music
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2008
Bolimorphy
Movie Music
- 2007
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2007
Katyn
Movie Original Music Composer
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2003
Poles Poles
Movie
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2000
The House with Arched Windows
Movie Music
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1998
Sternstunde Kunst
TV show Self
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1991
Silence
Movie Music
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1989
Sonata for Hitler
Movie Music
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1987
The Lonely Voice of Man
Movie Music
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1986
The Preservation of Secret
Movie Original Music Composer
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1984
Marked
Movie Music
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1983
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Movie Original Music Composer
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1980
The Shining
Movie Music
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1978
Threnos
Movie Original Music Composer
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1974
Simiterio do Adão e Eva
Movie Music
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1969
The Devils of Loudun
Movie Writer
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1969
Les Gauloises bleues
Movie Original Music Composer
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1968
Krzysztof Penderecki
Movie Himself(unconfirmed)
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1968
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Movie Original Music Composer
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1968
Conscience
Movie Music
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1968
Silence
Movie Music
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1966
The Codes
Movie Music
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1966
Zejście do piekła
Movie Music
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1966
The Saragossa Manuscript
Movie Original Music Composer
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1966
The Charm of the Wheels
Movie Music
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1966
Icarus
Movie Music
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1966
Keeping a Distance
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1966
Icons
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1966
Hamlet x 5
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1966
Passacaglia Dedicated to Royal Sigmond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle
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