Krzysztof Penderecki

Great avant-garde composer until the mid-'70s, afterwards, out of the blue, he veered towards a much less interesting post-post-romanticism with one of the most abrupt triple somersaults with a twist in history. I realized that around the beginning/mid-'70s, other composers (see Ligeti) also decided to distance themselves from the more radical avant-gardes to reclaim some tradition, but at least Gyorgy continued to write great music without betraying his previous achievements. Penderecki seems to have been replaced by a doppelgänger, such is the difference. Mysteries...