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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 956,347 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Krzysztof Penderecki is the 126th most popular composer (down from 102nd in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Poland (down from 60th 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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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 126 out of 1,216Before him are Giovanni Gabrieli, Anton Rubinstein, György Ligeti, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Domenico Cimarosa, and Pérotin. After him are Karlheinz Stockhausen, Carl Nielsen, Johannes Ockeghem, Paul Dukas, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Maurice Jarre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 24Before him are Philip Roth, Jalal Talabani, Susan Sontag, Just Fontaine, Lina Medina, and Paul Biya. After him are Heinrich Rohrer, Costa-Gavras, Elinor Ostrom, Arno Allan Penzias, Wilbur Smith, and Richard Rogers. Among people deceased in 2020, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 13Before him are Pierre Cardin, Olivia de Havilland, Max von Sydow, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and Katherine Johnson. After him are John le Carré, Ian Holm, Michel Piccoli, Albert Uderzo, Alan Parker, and Juliette Gréco.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 86 out of 1,454Before him are Horst Köhler (1943), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Carl Menger (1840), Egon Krenz (1937), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), and Johannes Hevelius (1611). After him are Anton Denikin (1872), Kurt Alder (1902), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Dziga Vertov (1896), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), and Friedrich Bergius (1884).

Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 2Before him are Frédéric Chopin (1810). After him are Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Martin Agricola (1486), Józef Elsner (1769), and Maria Szymanowska (1789).