Karol Wojtyła, a great Pole, Pope of breakthrough, thinker, personality in the worlds of culture and art, poet, actor, and a man of peace and dialogue, was born a hundred years ago, on 18 May 1920. The history of his life resembles a multi-layered tale of an artist, philosopher, and a man concerned with the fates of humankind and the shape of the contemporary world. The space of nature and culture that produced Krzysztof Penderecki’s ideas and musical concepts is also characterised by that Renaissance versatility of interests, from roots in the culture of antiquity, via philosophical reflection and knowledge of literature, painting, and architecture, to the art of creating gardens.
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