1933-. A composer and conductor from Poland, a giant of 20th Century Music. He wrote wonderfully harsh and maverick avant-garde works at first, like Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. He went on to compose great modern liturgical works (once having taught courses in early church music), including Requiem, St. Luke's Passion, and Te
Deum (dedicated to John Paul II). In recent decades, he has further reconciled his old-school and new-school sides.