Example sentences for: penderecki

How can you use “penderecki” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "I wrote Threnody thinking only about structure [and] architecture," Penderecki once said.

  • In 1960, Penderecki exploded the lyrical associations of the string orchestra in his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima for 52 stringed instruments, a brutal piece commemorating an act of violence.

  • Berio is 72 now, Penderecki 64 and, like revolutionaries everywhere, they belong to a generation that has fallen into disrepute.

  • Many young composers view musical modernism with distaste, much as Berio and Penderecki and their peers viewed late Romanticism in their day.

  • The most recognizable to Western listeners are composers such as Frédéric Chopin, the father of Polish music, as well as Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Górecki, who unexpectedly scored an international best seller with his Symphony No. 3 in the early 1990s.


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