I was In a concert a couple of years ago (in Finland) where they played horror movie music. One of the music was by Krzysztof Penderecki "Polymorphia" from the movie Shining. It was Incredibly creepy but amazing. When it was over everyone gave a standing ovation.

Respect to creative artists who break the "rules" of music composition!

Thank you for spotlighting such unique artist! The threnody for Hiroshima is so terrifying 😢

Check out the three horror jazz albums that Kenyon Hopkins put out in the late 50's and early 60's, they will blow you away.... They're very, very rare, took me years to find them.... Got to mention Gustav Holst's The Planets, I've read that when first performed, I think in 1918 the theatre emptied out, people were terrified by it.... Thanks for letting me know about this composer!

I did a research project over horror movie scores and I researched several of Penderecki’s pieces used in The Shining. His work is so brutal yet beautiful. Thank you for this video.

The piece Penderecki was talking about regarding the church’s issues was the opera Die Teufel von Loudun. It is glorious.

Penderecki is basically the successor to Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg invented serialist/12-tone composition and atonality. Penderecki pushed that style of composition to its limits. Schoenberg composed a piece dedicated to the Jews or Warsaw ghetto that were the first victims of WW2. Penderecki composed one for the victims of the atomic bombing that were the final victims of that war. Both composer's music is eerie and dark and more than a little unhinged. Schoenberg I don't think ever composed for movies, but his influence sure did (see also: Bernard Hermann's score for Psycho). Penderecki, on the other hand, did lend his shit for movies that came in Psycho's wake.

great video, I always feel smarter at the end of the day when I watch your videos since I learn a lot about musician's lives and what impact they had on pop culture I probably wouldn't have know if it wasn't for your videos

The Beksinski of Music. His cousin: Tadeusz Kantor.

If philosophy and life experiences are accounted for, it's difficult not to consider Allan Pettersson the king of the morose, pretty much everything is universally bleak, and he received very little attention or rewards during his lifetime. The circumstances of Schnittke's 9th symphony's writing also, the manuscript wasn't fully intelligible and required some interpretation. "I think this is music of someone who is already dead - as Schnittke had been, having been pronounced clinically dead on several occasions during his strokes. Much of the music sounds like the exploratory wanderings of a ghost during his first encounter with a new, otherworldly universe.... It is a delicate work, to be sure, and I think there is a lot of richness to keep exploring in its nuances"

One of the best composers of my country.

I love that you spotlight different artists! Amazing ❤️❤️❤️

Been waiting for a new upload, mad hype

My favourite of his is "Utrenja", fantastic piece

Perfect timing! Recently I heard the thernody fot Hiroshima a day before this video came out. Thanks deburke

Great new video and subject. You are killing it.

I attended one of the last concerts Penderecki conducted himself. This was in the Gdansk Philharmonic. When was it? 2007 or maybe 2009, I don`t remember exactly. He was very fat, couldn`t move much, wasn`t very agile. Looked very old. An alarm went off in the building. Not in the concert hall itself, but you could hear it. He paused the concert until they switched it off. He was very calm and concentrated on music: a great master - you could feel it. This concert was one of those things that happen only once in a lifetime, and at the time I was vaguely aware it wouldn`t happen again.

Whoa my friend. I've always loved your channel. But you might have outdone yourself. What a fantastically original and truly interesting video along with your usual great research. Thank You !

Wow thanks for sharing that. What a legend 🥺❤️

The opening to this with the orchestra, made my dog and neighbors dog very upset 😂 💀

I feel like the composer of Hunter X Hunter (2011) got a lot of inspiration from this man's music.

Wow I've just realised parts of christoph's compositions are in "A plague tale" when you encounter the rats throughout the game

This man is genius I love his art! This man deserves love and support! I love dark music! Anything dark I love it! May you rest peace you talented man!

I’m a big fan of avant garde and noise music infact im the guy who suggested jandek to you. Cool stuff

Radiohead is one of my favorite bands. This collaboration makes sense.

I remember the chills I felt listening to the Threnody of Hiroshima for the first time. It's certainly one of the most disturbing pieces ever created.

What an odd synchronicity you upload this right after I watch the Netflix show archive 81, the first episode being about a dark composer

When I hear Penderecki referred to as horror's favorite composer, I imagine a group of Italian film maestros like Riz Ortolani and Fabio Frizzi standing along with the members of Goblin and looking absolutely dejected and very sad...

Awesome channel! Cant wait to watch this tonight!

1:24 song? It's a piece not a song. Aside from that, great video. It was huge loss to my country when our most famous composed died

I read composter, I was so confused…this music is what trauma feels like. It’s very haunting but beautiful!

This was so informative

I knew I heard that piece somewhere, thank you Twin Peaks.

God I love this channel.

I love Penderecki's music so much.

Wozzeck is pretty great too. I'm constantly looking over my shoulder when it's on.

Goblins work in suspiria always scared me.

Can you cover Imam Alimsultanov? I think his story although hard to find is very interesting

1:10 Sounds like 80 professional basketball players playing on the same arena court!

My cat is apparently not a Penderecki fan

Honestly, listening to Penderecki's work outright is 10x scarier than hearing it in a horror film. Shit, his music is scarier than most horror films in general.

Jesus I clicked the video then set my phone down...I wasn't prepared for that intro lol scared the shit out of me

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My all time favourite composer.

Sounds lovely

Brutal Orchestra..☠️☠️☠️

Uploaded just in time for my food to be ready

Depends on how you define "darkest", but I find Bela Bartok to be "darker".

A member of Radiohead worked this guy, amazing! I didn't know that!

Very different but very interesting and good

Brilliant

Here's a fun fact :D I once went for a walk with my friend to the cementary at midnight, cause it was a kind of very calm and warm night and the peace at cementary is actually very calming, nothing scary. He decided though that he has to scare me with some music examples, and he started to play me some horror metal or something... you know with whispers and stuff. I was like dude, that's pretentious not scary, but he kept on showing me them, so eventually I was like "OK, if You wanna be scared then liesten to this", and I played him "threnody for victims of hiroshima". The poor guy was terrified :D

What is the piece being played at the end that sounds like viola and piano?

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Still not appearing on your actual videos list fsr.

Check out Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum

I would've loved to see Trent Reznor team up with Christoph... New Ghosts album anyone?

To me, the darkest, most haunting and horrifying song is the trance song known as The Song of Liberation.

Reminds me of aspects of some of Ligeti's work.

Oh yea - I remember this from Twin Peaks.

Sounds like the phenomenal string composites from The Exorcist. EDIT: Oh ok, that's why it sounds similar...because it is his. 👍

AAAAAAAHH THE SCARY MUSIC!!!

I'm surprised you haven't did anything on the band SKYND (if you haven't) I just watched your disturbing rap songs, I've been a fan of BLH from day one but SKYND's videos are more disturbing by far because they are based on actual events.

I saw this title and thought you were going to talk about Varese

He definitely had a panache for the dark senses..

I literally can not listen to music like this. It honestly will make me paranoid wanting it to be day time and my mom to come sit with me, it really might give me nightmares. Movies or images don’t bother me but Sound fucks me right up.

This kind of music hardly couldn´t exist without the precedent of Xenakis.

Now I know where "Sebastian - Threnody" came from!!!!

Penderecki with black beard gets even darker.

Viowins is SCAWEY!!!

I've heard this piece in many cartoons. I think I heard it in teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012.

Alfred Schnittke

See also: Art Zoyd and Univers Zero

Why does this sound like the background music when gon is charging his rockpaper fist to hit pitou in hunter X hunter

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I was hoping Nolan would have used Threnody in Oppenheimer, but alas no.

He was a legend in music history. :-)

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Horror move music 🎶.

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that first piece works just fine in a movie or as the soundtrack of a documentary but c'mon it's not music, it's pure irritating noise. it makes sense only if related to something else, not on its own. however kudos to him for saying f*uck you to the church

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Sounds like music to the movie Friday the 13th!

This guy sounds Canadian who is narrating....🤔🇨🇦

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Darkest?? I don't think so. R.I.P. Mistrzu.

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Thank you for this video - but i have several problems with it and this is not criticism, but a precursor for discussion?? Firstly - a very pedantic point, it's not a 'song'. Secondly, the fact that he titled 'threnody' afterwards suggests he realised it could have a wider political influence. 3- forget Film Music. He never wrote anything intended for film. He once stated that he wanted to write "liberating sound beyond all tradition". He was a great admirer of Chopin (as am I), but he wanted to break free from all traditional harmonic forms. He is NOT the father of horror music, only that directors discovered his sound (and that of Ligeti and Bartok). Penderecki was amazing, but he has very little to do wit horror music other than the fact that direcotrs/producers used his music for their own ends. Please discuss?

I LOVE Penderecki, but I'm not sure he would be "the godfather of horror music" considering the Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg and Webern) came way before him. Also, there were plenty of composers around the same time as Penderecki writing what could be considered "horror music". What about Scelsi, Ligeti or Xenakis for example? Are their contributions completely overshadowed by Penderecki? I think not! Nice video, but let's not conflate Penderecki as a godfather of horror music when it's clear that he wasn't the first composer to attempt in writing this kind of music.

Penderecki did not compose horror music. People are conditioned to associate dissonant music with horror movies because the great composers have been ripped off for that purpose. I never think of horror when listening to modern composers.

Of the church is trying to stop you you're probably doing something right

I still can't stand the music from the exorcist movie. That movie scared the crap out of me !

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are ya kidding??? true, ONLY a Demon knows hellish sounds of torments..., fact

I nominate Ukrainian composer Sergei Pilutikov. Listen to "Legion" and "Barrier".

Krzysztof is pronounced kgyshtof not like christoph. And Penderecki is pronounced penderetski.

1:15 how does the sound of strings grinding induce feeling of fear, dread, loneliness, etc etc ... Melodrama at its peak.. What's so scary with the sounds? These are just sounds, meaning the thing*(natural phenomenon) occurs when air molecules vibrates in a given rhythm. That's it. NATURE* So what's so scary? F the classical Greeks for innovating drama! which is one of the main distorting factors to human rationality and reasoning, alongside the likes of religion, nationalism, etc etc... Disgusting huh? Why don't use the energy you get from your food to use your brains in some productive way, like theorising your own scientific research, peer review others', etc etc.. i even have no problem in entrainment. I mean not everything has to be solely contributive towards mankind you know. You can have a time of relaxation and play. I can receive reasonable extent of drama obviously as a homo sapiens myself. But feeling scares, dread and loneliness for sounds????? oh my mmmm It's same as getting goosebumps upon seeing arrow rain scenes in medieval movies, bullied kid got his revenge on the bully scene, child riding a dragon and screaming "yaaahoo" "yeeeehaa" scene, and so on ... Right? you get goosebumps from them right??! Disgusting! pfft

Dark music like this sounds more relaxing than alot of other music out their

finally someone's deploring the atrocities committed by the US in ww2