Man’s worst moments seem to fascinate Poland’s avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki. In his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, Dies Irae (an oratorio in memory of the dead of Auschwitz) and ...

Krzysztof Penderecki was born on this day in 1933. He burst onto the international scene with the piece shown here, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. His music can be heard on films like The ...

There's a beguiling photo of Krzysztof Penderecki, who turns 80 today, inside the brochure of this week's Warsaw music festival that bears his name. It shows the lauded Polish composer standing in his ...

Known early on for his avant-garde works, the composer's challenging music nevertheless found fans far beyond traditional classical music circles. Krzysztof Penderecki, Boundary-Breaking Polish ...