Krzysztof Penderecki, the influential Polish composer and conductor, has died, The New York Times reports. Penderecki died at his home in Krakow.
His death was confirmed by Andrzej Giza, the director of the Ludwig van Beethoven Association—an organization founded by Penderecki’s wife Elzbieta.
He was 86. Penderecki was born in Dębica in 1933. He studied at the Academy of Music in Krakow and became an instructor there shortly after graduating.
As one in a group of young avant garde Polish composers, he found international acclaim with his 1960 composition Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960).
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