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The Guardian Threnody To The Victims of Hiroshima St. Luke Passion Polish Requiem Anaklasis Utrenja

Krzysztof Penderecki is a Polish composer and conductor born in 1933 known for works like Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. He studied music at Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he later became a teacher. Penderecki has composed operas, symphonies, concertos, choral works, and chamber music. He won several prestigious awards including multiple Grammys for his compositions. Penderecki was born in Dębica to a lawyer father and Armenian grandmother, and studied violin and music theory as well as composition at the Academy of Music in Kraków.

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The Guardian Threnody To The Victims of Hiroshima St. Luke Passion Polish Requiem Anaklasis Utrenja

Krzysztof Penderecki is a Polish composer and conductor born in 1933 known for works like Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. He studied music at Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he later became a teacher. Penderecki has composed operas, symphonies, concertos, choral works, and chamber music. He won several prestigious awards including multiple Grammys for his compositions. Penderecki was born in Dębica to a lawyer father and Armenian grandmother, and studied violin and music theory as well as composition at the Academy of Music in Kraków.

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Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (Polish: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf pɛndɛˈrɛt͡ʲsk]i ; born 23 November 1933) is

a Polish composer and conductor. The Guardian has called him Poland's greatest living
composer.[1] Among his best known works are Threnody to the Victims of
Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St. Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja.
Penderecki composed four 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.
Born in Dębica to a lawyer, Penderecki studied music at Jagiellonian University and
the Academy of Music in Kraków. After graduating from the Academy of Music, Penderecki
became a teacher at the academy and he 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 not immediately successful. Beginning in the mid-1970s,
Penderecki's composing style changed, with his first violin concerto focusing on
the semitone and the tritone. His choral work Polish Requiem was written in the 1980s, with
Penderecki expanding it in 1993 and 2005.
Penderecki has won many prestigious awards, including the Commander's Cross in 1964,
the Prix Italia in 1967 and 1968, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1964,
five Grammy Awards in 1987, 1998, 2001, 2013, and 2017, Wolf Prize in Arts in 1987 and
the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1992.[2]
Penderecki was born in Dębica, to Tadeusz Penderecki, a lawyer, and Zofia
(née Wittgenstein). Penderecki's grandfather, Robert Berger, was a highly talented painter
and director of the local bank at the time of Penderecki's birth; Robert's father Johann moved
to Dębica from Breslau (now Wrocław) in the mid-19th century.[3] His grandmother was
an Armenian[4] from Isfahan, Iran. Penderecki used to go to the Armenian Church in Kraków
with her.[5] Penderecki was the youngest of three siblings; his sister, Barbara, was married to
a mining engineer, and his older brother, Janusz, was studying law and medicine at the time
of his birth. Tadeusz was a violinist and also played piano.[3] In 1939, the Second World
War broke out, and Penderecki's family moved out of their apartment as the Ministry of Food
was to operate there. After the war, Penderecki began attending grammar school in 1946. He
began studying the violin under Stanisław Darłak, Dębica's military bandmaster who
organized an orchestra for the local music society after the war.[6] Upon graduating from
grammar school, Penderecki moved to Kraków in 1951, where he attended Jagiellonian
University.[6] He studied violin with Stanisław Tawroszewicz and music theory with Franciszek
Skołyszewski.[7] In 1954, Penderecki entered the Academy of Music in Kraków and, having
finished his studies on violin after his first year, focused entirely on composition. Penderecki's
main teacher there was Artur Malawski, a composer known for his choral works and
orchestral works, as well as chamber music and songs. After Malawski's death in 1957,
Penderecki took further lessons with Stanisław Wiechowicz, a composer primarily known for
his choral works.[8] At the time, the 1956 overthrow of Stalinism in Poland lifted strict cultural
censorship and opened the door to a wave of creativity.[9]

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