COMPOSER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krzysztof Penderecki has received more than 1,005,758 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Krzysztof Penderecki is the 121st most popular composer (up from 126th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Poland (down from 86th 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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  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 121 out of 1,451. Before him are Francisco Tárrega, György Ligeti, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Fanny Mendelssohn, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Muzio Clementi. After him are Josef Strauss, Emmerich Kálmán, Max Bruch, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Mikhail Glinka, and Daniel Auber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 27. Before him are Susan Sontag, Mako, Elinor Ostrom, Francisco Gento, Arno Allan Penzias, and Jayne Mansfield. After him are Paul Biya, Paul J. Crutzen, Abolhassan Banisadr, Bernardo Provenzano, Kim Novak, and Quincy Jones. Among people deceased in 2020, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 16. Before him are Qasem Soleimani, Alan Parker, Max von Sydow, Olivia de Havilland, Paolo Rossi, and Michel Piccoli. After him are Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Katherine Johnson, Albert Uderzo, Ian Holm, Stanley Cohen, and Tabaré Vázquez.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 94 out of 1,694. Before him are Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Anton Denikin (1872), Johannes Hevelius (1611), and Egon Krenz (1937). After him are Horst Köhler (1943), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Stefan Banach (1892), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Dziga Vertov (1896), and Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512).

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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), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), and Maria Szymanowska (1789).

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