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 • Jan. 30, 2023

Penderecki was one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers whose works featured in Hollywood films like “The Shining” and “Shutter Island.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022

Krzysztof Penderecki, an award-winning conductor and one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers, died at his home in Poland; he was 86.

From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2021

But now it’s a barely recognizable goth-opera nightmare that samples “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2020

Mr. Penderecki was most widely known for choral compositions evoking Poland’s ardent Catholicism and history of foreign domination, and for his early experimental works, with their massive tone clusters and disregard for melody and harmony.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2020