1933 - 2020
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, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 126 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1557 - 1612
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 120
1829 - 1894
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 121
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 122
1778 - 1837
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 123
1749 - 1801
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 124
1160 - 1230
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 125
1933 - 2020
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 126
1928 - 2007
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 127
1865 - 1931
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 128
1410 - 1497
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 129
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 130
1887 - 1959
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 131
1924 - 2009
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 132
Among people born in 1933, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 24. Before 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 13. Before 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.
1933 - 2018
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 18
1933 - 2017
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 19
1933 - 2004
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 20
1933 - 2023
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 21
1933 - Present
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 22
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 23
1933 - 2020
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 24
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 25
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 26
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 27
1933 - 2024
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 28
1933 - 2021
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 29
1933 - 2021
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 30
1922 - 2020
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 7
1916 - 2020
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 8
1929 - 2020
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 9
1940 - 2020
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 10
1920 - 2020
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 11
1918 - 2020
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 12
1933 - 2020
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 13
1931 - 2020
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 14
1931 - 2020
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 15
1925 - 2020
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 16
1927 - 2020
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 17
1944 - 2020
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 18
1927 - 2020
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 19
Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 86 out of 1,454. Before 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).
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 80
1924 - 2010
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 81
1840 - 1921
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 82
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 83
1046 - 1095
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 84
1611 - 1687
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 85
1933 - 2020
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 86
1872 - 1947
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 87
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 88
1512 - 1609
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 89
1896 - 1954
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 90
1898 - 1988
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 91
1884 - 1949
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 92
Among composers born in Poland, Krzysztof Penderecki ranks 2. Before 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).
1810 - 1849
HPI: 88.83
Rank: 1
1933 - 2020
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 2
1913 - 1994
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 3
1933 - 2010
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 4
1854 - 1925
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 5
1881 - 1950
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 6
1687 - 1750
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 7
1834 - 1861
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 8
1919 - 1996
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 9
1486 - 1556
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 10
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 11
1789 - 1831
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 12