Krzysztof Penderecki : (3)

" I think in work like ‘Passion According to St Luke,’ which I wrote when the Church was being persecuted by the Communist regime, it mattered to me to declare for the cause. I sided with the militant Church and I think my music fulfilled an important socio-political function. " - Krzysztof Penderecki

" I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times. " - Krzysztof Penderecki

" So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some kind of synthesis, some musical language which will allow us just to write music. " - Krzysztof Penderecki