Penderecki

American  

[pen-duh-ret-skee, pen-de-rets-kee] / ˌpɛn dəˈrɛt ski, ˌpɛn dɛˈrɛts ki /

noun

1. Krzysztof 1933–2020, Polish composer.

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Penderecki British  

/ pɛndɛˈrɛtski /

noun

1. Krzystof (ˈkʃiʃtɔf). born 1933, Polish composer, noted for his highly individual orchestration. His works include Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima for strings (1960), Stabat Mater (1962), Polish Requiem (1983–84), and the opera Ubu Rex (1991)

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Example Sentences

In interviews, he seemed more comfortable discussing his love of 20th-century composers like Morton Feldman and Krzysztof Penderecki than chatting about his rock-and-roll contemporaries.

From Washington Post

Verlaine was passionate about harmonically complex music, especially jazz saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, the classical compositions of Henryk Gorecki and Krzysztof Penderecki, and film composers Bernard Herrmann and Henry Mancini, as well as literature, especially the French symbolists of the late 1800s.

From Los Angeles Times

The German translation of that stage work, by Erich Fried, is the basis for Penderecki’s text, which bends the material even further toward allegory à la “The Crucible,” making a martyr of Grandier and subtly connecting his tragedy to the repression and conspiratorial violence of 20th-century totalitarianism, as in his country, Poland.

From New York Times

Penderecki, classical music’s poet of terror, tells his story with the material of horror films.

From New York Times

Penderecki’s opera, though, is the kind of art that we avoid at our own peril.

From New York Times