Jan KrenzJan Krenz 14.07.1926 Włocławek : 15.09.2020 Warszawa #film and theater #folkloric-national threads #experiment #conductingThere has been no Warsaw Autumn without Jan Krenz, and he has participated in the famous festival in a dual role. For one of the most distinguished figures in Polish conducting can boast of a substantial compositional output, in which the artist’s encounter with the Darmstadt avant-garde at the end of the 1950s was of particular significance. Krenz’s works from that time attest to a stylistic about-face: 12-tone and aleatoric technique effectively supplanted Neoclassical aesthetic language, though later came a time of synthesis.