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Krzysztof Penderecki

Polish composer
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Krzysztof Penderecki (born November 23, 1933, Debica, Polandā€”died March 29, 2020, KrakĆ³w) was an outstanding Polish composer of his generation whose novel and masterful treatment of orchestration won worldwide acclaim. Penderecki studied composition at the Superior School of Music in KrakĆ³w (graduated 1958) and subsequently became a professor there. He first drew attention in 1959 at the third Warsaw Festival of Contemporary Music, where his Strophes for soprano, speaker, and 10 instruments was performed. The...

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