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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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4	Divertimento for Solo Cello (1994) I. Sarabande	46
5	Lacrimosa full track	43
6	Tuba mirum full track	39
7	Agnus Dei full track	35
8	Polymorphia	34
9	Symphony No. 1 - Arche I	30
10	Irmos full track	25
11	Dies Irae full track	21
11	De Natura Sonoris No. 2 full track	21
13	De Natura Sonoris No. 1	19
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Mystaah wrote:
last week

The Shining soundtrack is the best movie soundtrack ever.

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Roncsipar wrote:
9 days ago

I mean Penderecki. He'd even lose integrity in the 70s.

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Roncsipar wrote:
9 days ago

this guy has issues haha

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The_Director_ wrote:
15 days ago

"Quartetto per archi" gives me wish to go to W.C.

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FauveTerror wrote:
23 days ago

The Shining is absolutely AMAZING! frightening, dreadful....

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thaumo wrote:
28 days ago

let's not confuse matters here; it's not different good, it's MOR classical. Ughh.

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LuigiNono wrote:
29 days ago

There's still a lot of good music in the later stuff, eg Sextet. It's just very different.

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thaumo wrote:
last month

His latter stuff casts such a shadow of turd over the truely great stuff he produced early on. Just....why.

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kaplain wrote:
last month

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Sgarre1 wrote:
last month

I hear echoes of Komeda's score for ROSEMARY'S BABY in "Metamorphosen" (Violin Concerto #2)

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johnstrieder wrote:
last month

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:
last month

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:
last month

Uwielbiam go.

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SarahsCorner wrote:
last month

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

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Ewelin87 wrote:
October 2009

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

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Ticharu wrote:
October 2009

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

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Miskc wrote:
October 2009

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

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MyManMahmoud wrote:
October 2009

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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