Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf pɛndɛˈrɛt͡skʲi], born November 23, 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor. His avant-garde composition "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" (1960) for string orchestra and his choral "St. Luke Passion" (1966) both featured novel compositional techniques, which made him a famous name. Since the 1970s Penderecki's style has changed to encompass a post-Romantic idiom.
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"Probably the most influential composer in terms of how many people imitated his style, in recent years, that award would go to Webern first, for being the founder of the 'boop-beep' school and also to Penderecki because of the 'texture' music that a lot of people imitate. But I think that even his music grows out of some of the textural experiments that Varèse did."
Zappa mentioned Penderecki as one of his favorite composers in the interviews Humo Spoke With Zappa! and Martin Perlich interviews FZ.
Zappa named "The Devils Of Loudon" by Penderecki one of his 10 favorite records in Faves, Raves And Composers In Their Graves. In Classical Zappa he also cites it as his favourite opera, because he "liked the enema scene."
