Quotes About Penderecki

Dalla tua espressione tragicomalinconica, dice Grégoire, dev'essere Mahler. Ma guarda un po', adesso indovini il tipo di musica dall'espressione di un volto? Certo, quando ascolti quel polacco, Penderecki, sembri un cubo di Rubik abbandonato.

I think the best publicity I can get for my music is to conduct it.

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

If I would be born in New Zealand, maybe, I would never write the Polish Requiem or pieces which were connected with the history of war. But this was my childhood. War was the main subject, and also in our family.