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Krzysztof Penderecki

1933 - 2020

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Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (Polish: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf pɛndɛˈrɛt͡skʲi] ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Krzysztof Penderecki is the 131st most popular composer (down from 121st in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Poland (up from 94th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Composer.

Krzysztof Penderecki is most famous for his choral work, "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" which he composed in 1960.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 131 out of 1,451. Before him are Carl Nielsen, Maurice Jarre, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Anton Rubinstein, and Josef Strauss. After him are Benjamin Britten, Giovanni Gabrieli, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Daniel Auber, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Édouard Lalo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 28. Before him are Susan Sontag, Amartya Sen, Paul Biya, Paul J. Crutzen, Philip Roth, and Elinor Ostrom. After him are Corazon Aquino, Mako, Richard R. Ernst, Fouad Mebazaa, Ronald Evans, and Kim Novak. Among people deceased in 2020, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 19. Before him are Tabaré Vázquez, David Prowse, John Saxon, Katherine Johnson, Paolo Rossi, and Olivia de Havilland. After him are Albert Uderzo, Michel Piccoli, Eduard Limonov, Alan Parker, Robert Hossein, and Ian Holm.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 85 out of 1,694. Before him are Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Horst Köhler (1943), and Jan Matejko (1838). After him are Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Stefan Banach (1892), Anna Jagiellon (1523), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), and Carl Menger (1840).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 2. Before him are Frédéric Chopin (1810). After him are Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), and Viktor Ullmann (1898).

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