Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (23 November 1933 - 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among his best known works are his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, St. Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis, Utrenja, four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works.
Born in Dębica to a lawyer, Penderecki studied music at Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Music in Kraków. After graduating from the Academy of Music, Penderecki became a teacher at the academy and he began his career as a composer in 1959 during the Warsaw Autumn festival.
Penderecki won many prestigious awards, including the Commander's Cross in 1964, the Prix Italia in 1967 and 1968, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1964, five Grammy Awards in 1987, 1998, 2001, 2013, and 2017, Wolf Prize in Arts in 1987 and the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1992. (Read more at Wikipedia) 
== Links To Peel ==
During his Night Ride shows, Peel would often play modern classical music, especially from composers such as Penderecki, whose composition Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorium) was featured (in extracts rather than as a whole) at least three times, apparently as a result of listener response to the original broadcast.
However, after Night Ride was taken off the air, classical music (especially the avant-garde approach of Penderecki and his contemporaries) rarely featured on Peel's shows, although over the years the composer's work found enough recognition beyond the classical world to be used in a number of well-known films and TV series.
== Shows Played ==
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*14 May 1969: Apocalypsis (LP - Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorium) / Polymorphia / De Natura Sonoris) 
*28 May 1969: 'Apotheosis (from "Dies Irae: The Oratorio in Memoriam for the Victims of Auschwitz") (LP-Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorium) / Polymorphia / De Natura Sonoris)' (Philips)
*30 July 1969: Apocalypsis (LP - Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorium) / Polymorphia / De Natura Sonoris) Philips
== External Links ==
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* Discogs
* IMDb
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