Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja. His oeuvre includes four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works.
Penderecki in 2008
Penderecki between 1980 and 1990
Krzysztof Penderecki and Władysław Bartoszewski in 2011
Krzysztof Penderecki conducting the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, 2015
Dębica is a town in southeastern Poland with 44,692 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the capital of Dębica County. Since 1999 it has been situated in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship; it had previously been in the Tarnów Voivodeship (1975–1998). Dębica belongs to the historic province of Lesser Poland, and for centuries it was part of the Sandomierz Voivodeship.
Town hall
Monument depicting King Casimir III the Great giving Świętosław Gryfita permission to establish Dębica
Church of St. Jadwiga first erected in the 14th century
Dębica's oldest high school in the early 20th century