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Dębica, Poland (1933 – present)

Krzysztof Penderecki (born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor of classical music. Penderecki’s early works show the influence of Anton Webern and Pierre Boulez (he has also been influenced by Igor Stravinsky). Penderecki’s international recognition began in 1959 at the Warsaw Autumn Festival with the premiere of works, Strophen, Psalms of David, and Emanations, but the piece that truly brought him to international attention was Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, written for 52 string instruments. In it, Penderecki makes use of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing on the “wrong” side of the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece). There are many novel textures in the work, which makes great use of tone clusters (notes close together played at the same time).

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johnstrieder wrote:
13 days ago

It's cool to see more of his avantgarde works than his later ultra boring self-plagiarism stuff in the Chart. And Threnos is first Place - cool ;) Some one should tell him.

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LordRama wrote:
16 days ago

A great discovery. The CD of his Cello Concerto, Partita, Symphony No. 1, and Thredony (EMI) is a very worthy buy. Next I should get St. Luke Passion (and György Ligeti's Requiem as well). Thank you, Kubrick.

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Days_of_Prayer wrote:
19 days ago

Uwielbiam go.

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SarahsCorner wrote:
25 days ago

His music scared the shit out of me in The Shining. o.o

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Ewelin87 wrote:
last month

I was fooorced to give him some flowers after his concert.. ^^ hehe :)

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Ticharu wrote:
last month

Musicians are in the ear of the beholder :) Birds are musicians!

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Miskc wrote:
last month

it's definitely better to listen to his (early) works, than to his opinions.

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MyManMahmoud wrote:
last month

A huge influence on Luc Lemmay of avant-garde metal band Gorguts, so of course I like it. [2]

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TheShadowstorm wrote:
September 2009

hmmm.

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Kalanos wrote:
August 2009

pay attention, MartinMilk. he said that they couldn't call themselves as musicians. however, he didn't say their music was crap, and he didn't say the other couldn't call them musicians either.

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FranticFish123 wrote:
August 2009

A huge influence on Luc Lemmay of avant-garde metal band Gorguts, so of course I like it.

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KevinMcCool wrote:
July 2009

Amateurs lol

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MartinMilk wrote:
July 2009

Penderecki said, that without graduating a music school no one can call himself a musican. So who John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix were?

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insomniacme wrote:
July 2009

what s/he said

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FaithPuppeteer wrote:
June 2009

Wishing someone dead? That's really classy.

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badoom_bum wrote:
June 2009

i think i'd like penderecki more if he'd have died

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faceofanother wrote:
May 2009

i think i'd like penderecki more if he'd have died in the early 70s

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Skarvendus wrote:
May 2009

To me he always seems like a dark lord who lives in a cave somewhere in Poland and once in a while he comes up spreading darkness everywhere he goes and he waves his baton and out of it comes nothing but darkness.

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Taxes wrote:
April 2009

There's a documentary on his life and his music if you haven't seen it before http://www.classicaltv.com/explore/Classical-Music/3/56/Krzysztof-Penderecki/krzysztof-penderecki. It's not that well done, but it's still pretty interesting nonetheless, I guess.

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grinderella wrote:
April 2009

one of the creepiest composers alive. makes me mute with horror. what would be lynch and kubrick wothout penderecki?

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