Krzysztof Penderecki

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Born	November 23, 1933 • Poland
Died	March 29, 2020 (aged 86) • Kraków • Poland
Awards And Honors	Praemium Imperiale (2004) • Grammy Award (1998) • Grammy Award (1987)

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Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer

Joseph Haydn

Austrian composer

Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer

Leonard Bernstein

American composer and conductor

Gunther Schuller

American composer

Hector Berlioz

French composer

Arnold Schoenberg

American composer

Anton Webern

Austrian composer

Georg Philipp Telemann

German composer

Heinrich Schütz

German composer

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

French composer

Frank Martin

Swiss composer

Aaron Copland

American composer

Olivier Messiaen

French composer

Pierre Boulez

French composer and conductor

Luciano Berio

Italian composer

Witold Lutosławski

Polish composer

Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer and musician

George Frideric Handel

German-English composer

Felix Mendelssohn

German musician and composer

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