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Panufnik

/ pæˈnuːfnɪk /

noun

  1. PanufnikSir Andrzej19141991MBritishPolishMUSIC: composerMUSIC: conductor Sir Andrzej (ændreɪ). 1914–91, British composer and conductor, born in Poland. His works include nine symphonies, the cantata Winter Solstice (1972), Polish folk-song settings, and ballet music
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Panufnik, whose body of choral music includes a “Coronation Sanctus,” written for the crowning of Charles III, composed a “Kyrie After Byrd” in 2014 and is working on another response.

Panufnik, whose body of choral music includes a “Coronation Sanctus,” written for the crowning of Charles III, composed a “Kyrie After Byrd” in 2014 and is working on another response.

The royal-watching world in short order will be hearing from Lloyd Webber, in the form of his three-minute piece for the coronation, alongside new works by classical composers including Roxanna Panufnik, Tarik O’Regan, Roderick Williams and Shirley J. Thompson.

For others, like the composer Roxanna Panufnik, who contributed a setting of Severus Gastorius’s melody “Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan,” the project was an opportunity to bring her closer to Bach.

Panufnik’s approach was to avoid close study of the text in favor of her own independent harmonization of the set chorale, one of a number of varied responses to Whitehead’s hope of creating what he described as a “unified sense of ‘affekt.’”

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