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Polish composer (1893-1963)
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2020-03-29 17:05:00
Influential composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki dies aged 86 — Obituary
[…] of three children of Zofia (nee Wittgenstein) and Tadeusz Penderecki. His father was a lawyer, and an amateur violinist and pianist. Armenian ancestry came from a grandmother, who took the young Penderecki to an Armenian church in Krakow; this aspect of the composer's heritage was highlighted in 2015 with the premiere of a new choral work, Psalm No.3, commemorating the Armenian Genocide of 1915, at Carnegie Hall, New York.Composition studies with Artur Malawski and Stanislaw Wiechowicz at the State Higher School of Music (now known as the Academy) in Kraków (1954-1958) led to his being appointed a teacher of composition there himself. This was only five years after the death of Stalin; and, despite the advent of the Warsaw autumn international festival of contemporary music in 1956, communist rule in Poland discouraged modernist tendencies.Penderecki himself was then still writing music essentially neoclassical in style, and in 1958 it must have […]
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