I started to write religious music at a time when it was absolutely impossible. The first religious work I wrote was the… — Krzysztof Penderecki Impossible Copy Share Image
I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first… — Krzysztof Penderecki 1950s Copy Share Image
The communists saw what we did in the arts as the only product of socialism that was known in the West, so… — Krzysztof Penderecki Art Copy Share Image
When the Second World War started, I was only five but I still remember... Being a witness... I wanted people to remember… — Krzysztof Penderecki Country Copy Share Image
I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my… — Krzysztof Penderecki Change Copy Share Image
Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony. — Krzysztof Penderecki Great Copy Share Image
At school, I wrote in the style of the Dutch composers. After I graduated, a new style set in. — Krzysztof Penderecki Composers Copy Share Image
I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half… — Krzysztof Penderecki Colleagues Copy Share Image
I grew up at the time of Social Realism in Poland, when everyone was supposed to be 'writing for the workers.' But… — Krzysztof Penderecki Change Copy Share Image
It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done. — Krzysztof Penderecki Everything Copy Share Image
I don't really think my work breaks into periods. In fact, if you listen to my work in all its so-called periods,… — Krzysztof Penderecki Continuity Copy Share Image
In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death… — Krzysztof Penderecki Death Copy Share Image
Melody was banned from music by the composers of the avant-garde. I was unique among them in always using and writing melody… — Krzysztof Penderecki I think Copy Share Image
With Orff it is text, text, text - the music always subordinate. Not so with me. In 'Magnificat,' the text is important,… — Krzysztof Penderecki Caring Copy Share Image
As a young man I couldn't travel, nobody could travel, they wouldn't give us a passport. For many years I was trying… — Krzysztof Penderecki Competition Copy Share Image
There was this kind of dictatorship of the Darmstadt school, composers like Boulez and Stockhausen, who were very strict and orthodox. They… — Krzysztof Penderecki Dictatorship Copy Share Image
