Krzysztof Penderecki has died
What an absolute legend, his music was like nothing else that came before. Rest in peace.<p>In case you're not familiar with his work - one of the best known pieces is the "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima". Here you can see it overlaid on top of the notation he had invented to write this composition down:
<a href="https://youtu.be/HilGthRhwP8" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/HilGthRhwP8</a><p>Wikipedia page on the piece:
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_H...</a>