Example sentences for: penderecki

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

  • Four decades later, Penderecki has joined the ranks of those who renounce the achievements of his generation; Berio remains unabashedly highbrow and staunchly atonal, a true avant-gardist.

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

  • Penderecki cranks up 19 th -century Baroque-style rhetoric into something both stentorian and shrill.

  • 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.


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