- known as
- composer, conductor, pedagogue, musicologist, music educator, violinist
- fields
- conducting, music education, music composing, music composition
- degrees
- scientific professorship degree
- awards
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, 1996, Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic), 2005, Golden Medal for Merit to Culture, 2008, Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 1993, Polish Academy Award for Best Film Score, 2008, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1990, Herder Prize, 1977, Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, 2003, Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg, 1999, Grammy Trustees Award, 1968, Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, 2001, State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia, 2002, Praemium Imperiale, 2004, Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class, 2006, Order of the Badge of Honour, 2009, Grawemeyer Awards, 1992, Order of the Banner of Work, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class, 2014, Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 2000, Order of Bernardo O'Higgins, 2008, Officer of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, 1998, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, 1992, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, 2011, Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland, 2008, Order of Cultural Merit, 1993, Commander of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, 2009, Wihuri Sibelius Prize, 1983, honorary citizen of Kraków, 2013, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, 1992, Golden Medal for Merit to Culture, 2005, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2014, Order of the Three Stars, 2006, Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, 1998, Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, 2009, The Medal of Services to the Motherland, Paszport Polityki, Work Flag Order, 1st class, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 1974, Order of Danica Hrvatska, Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 1964, Romano Guardini award, 2002, Order of the White Eagle, 2005, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Princess of Asturias Awards, honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University, 1979, Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music, Badge of Honor “Merits for Mazovia”, 2008
- member of
- Academy of Arts of the GDR, Academy of Arts, Berlin, American Academy of Arts and Letters, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Polish Academy of Learning, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Union of Polish Composers
- notable works
- Polish Requiem, Symphony No. 8
