He was particularly drawn to religious music and was the first modern composer to revive the form of the Passion (with 1966’s “St. Throughout his career, Penderecki worked in multiple forms – symphony, opera, concerto, vocal and chamber works – producing masterpieces such as “Dies Irae” (1967), “Jutrznia” (1970-71), and the opera “The Devils of Loudun” (1968-69). Conducting his own concerts, he had a unique ability to elicit emotional responses from his audiences and to convey messages of profound humanism. Recipient of hundreds of prizes (including five Grammy Awards), he achieved a rare balance between radical experimentation and an approach to classical music that struck a chord within popular culture.

Creator of his own compositional idiom, “sonorism”, which became a hallmark of the so-called Polish School of Composition, he was an early recipient of the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers Prize for “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima” (1961). Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) was one of the progenitors of avant-garde music of the 1960s. Online viewing on March 30-Apdetails to be announced at a later dateĪnthology Film Archives is located on 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003 In person viewing at Anthology Film Archives on Maat 7:30 PM ET

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