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In the 1960s Krzysztof Penderecki made his name as an avant-garde composer. The label, to some extent, has stuck. He is best known for exploring new sonorities and techniques in his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960) and in his St Luke Passion (Passio et mors Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam, 1963–65).
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But beyond the intensity of these creations, Penderecki’s work is remarkable for its change of style, and its evolution towards a more traditional, almost neo-Romantic tonal language. Born in Dębica, a small town in Poland between Kraków and Lviv, Penderecki studied at the State Academy of Music in Kraków from the age of 18, at the same time pursuing courses in philosophy, art history and literary history at the city’s Jagiellonian University.
He began to teach at the Academy after he graduated in 1958. His first mature work, Psalms of David, from the same year, shows him embracing 12-note composition and experimenting with a range of vocal techniques –