Krzysztof Penderecki

✶November 23, 1933

†March 29, 2020

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About their life

Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki 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.

Polish composer and conductor (1933–2020)

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Biography from the article Krzysztof Penderecki on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.