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Visit one of Europe’s largest garden labyrinths and discover the music that has been concealed inside it! Penderecki planted 15000 hornbeams in accordance with a medieval design once found on a reproduction in an old book. To learn the labyrinth’s history, find four fragments of Penderecki’s work. Use the keyboard and the mouse to move around the site.
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Read about the history of the labyrinth and its significance to the Maestro’s output.
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What does Krzysztof Penderecki’s music sound like in his own park and garden?
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Cognac from Mrs Solecka - Read morePenderecki’s enterprising mother-in-law proved resourceful as the supervisor of the manor’s renovation.
It’s a pity I wasn’t enough of a Malczewski fan in those days... A Malczewski at the Price of a Wardrobe - Read more
Drafting New Music on the Beach - Read moreFor five decades the Penderecki couple spent their holidays at the seaside, where their love and music was born.
This was my life’s most important journey... A Journey to Italy - Read more
A Spontaneous Agnus Dei - Read moreSome of Penderecki’s works entered into a stormy dialogue with politics and history.
Chagall, Picasso, or Dalí? - Read morePenderecki’s visit to the Catalan surrealist painter went down in family history.
The Elopement of Stefania Szylkiewicz - Read moreElopements and clandestine weddings are part of this family’s dramatic history.
All of Bergers’ Trees - Read moreFrom which of his ancestors did Penderecki inherit his passion for trees?
Winnetou’s Adventures in German - Read morePenderecki learned German from poetry and adventure novels.
All of Malczewski Landscapes - Read moreThe Lusławice Manor is immediately recognisable in Malczewski’s paintings.
Near the Manor House - Read moreThe oldest part of the park, and a place of sanctuary, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
The oldest building in the park, boasting a rich history and numerous secrets.
The Storage House - Read moreThe Italian Garden - Read morePenderecki’s personal homage to the Renaissance art of Italian gardens.
The English Landscape Park - Read moreHow to maintain creative balance between nature and culture in a park?
The Rose Garden - Read moreA sunlit garden full of blooming roses is an ideal place to relax.
The Mazes - Read moreCan you find your way out of the great hornbeam maze?
The Lower Park - Read moreThe least structured and most mysterious part of the park, at the foot of the slope behind the manor house.
Alleys and Lines of Trees - Read moreThey map out the park’s composition, leading the guests from one key feature to another.
The king of Polish forests is represented in Lusławice park by dozens of species and varieties.
Oaks - Read moreThe Tree Collections - Read morePenderecki was a passionate collector from his youth, but the objects of his passion changed.
Here is a country house like those from Mickiewicz’s poems and Malczewski’s paintings.
The Manor House - Read more
Like the outhouse and the bowers, this building was designed by Penderecki himself.
The Chapel - Read more
A tomb among the ancient trees, commemorating the Italian theologist Socinus.
The Mausoleum - Read more
They invite visitors to rest and admire the views. One is associated with Penderecki’s mother-in-law.
The Bowers - Read more
The most original of these is the red bridge in the Japanese garden.
The Bridges - Read moreMy attitude is best defined by the words of a poet... Alchemical Distillation - Read more
I have decided to ‘conclude a pact of happiness with nature.’ A Pact of Happiness with Nature - Read more
Buckeyes and chestnuts are not the same, either in age or taste.
Bottlebrush buckeye - Read moreI am in fact building up a dendrological collection, and trying... Trees Like Postal Stamps - Read more
This huge and popular native tree guards the Italian garden.
European ash - Read more
This extremely impressive shrub reigns supreme at the back of the Lusławice Manor.
Rough-leaved hydrangea - Read more
This is a highly characteristic bush adorning the shore of one of the ponds in the lower park.
Common buttonbush - Read moreA park is like a music score: a fugato in one place, monophonic texture in another. A Park Like a Score - Read more
In the ruins of a 13th-century church... The Cobweb of the Maze - Read more
It was my dream to obtain a specimen of a unique tree species, Davidia involucrata... Kerchiefs in a Tree - Read more
Seeing a beautiful tree gives me a happy thrill... And Still It’s Growing - Read more
My great grandfather... My Great Grandpa the Forester - Read more
One of the composer’s favourite trees, with distinctive leaves and flowers.
American tulip tre - Read more
A species selected by the composer for a prestigious spot in front of the manor.
Maidenhair tree, gingko - Read more
This exotic tree blossomed in the spring to bid the composer farewell.
The dove tree - Read more
One of the composer’s favourites, distinguished by remarkable roots.
Bald cypress - Read more
Highly valued for its tasty fruit and decorative hanging flowers.
Sweet chestnuts - Read more
Queen of the European landscapes, extolled by poets and composers.
Small-leaved lime - Read more
The tree that grows near the manor is known from paintings done in Lusławice.
Eastern white pine - Read more
Lusławice park boasts a variety of this shrub which does not grow anywhere else.
Eastern sweetshrub - Read more
Magnolias are the pride of every garden; how many are there in Lusławice?
Magnolia - Read more
Krzysztof Penderecki passionately collected trees of this genus in his park.
Maples - Read moreProfessor Tumiłowicz Is Given a Tough Nut to Crack - Read moreThe Lusławice Tree Collection was supervised by the head of the WULS-SGGW Arboretum in Rogów.
Each tree has (...) its own place in my park... Composing with an Unknown - Read more
Saplings in Instrument Cases - Read moreDid Penderecki engage in smuggling? The soil of Lusławice Park knows the answer.
The Misfortunes of Fausto Sozzini - Read moreHow did the Italian freethinker, theologian and religious reformer end up in a Polish village?
The silver-leaved prince of Carpathian forests with a crown easily penetrated by sunlight.
European beech - Read more
This decorative little tree is a major feature of the Japanese garden.
Japanese stewartia - Read more
It has distinctive spiny stems, deep-lobed leaves and melliferous flowers.
Castor aralia - Read more
Will the 40-year-old specimen from Lusławice grow taller than its neighbours and live to be a few thousand years old?
Giant sequoia - Read moreI planted many varieties of Aesculus round the Centre, but, alas, they didn’t take root... Freezing chestnut trees - Read more
[My neighbours] would come to visit, looked round, and asked me what I needed those mongolias for (they meant magnolias!), why so many trees… Mongolias and the sketches - Read more
Protecting plants from the wind is most important... Rhododendron worries - Read more
One of the most popular ornamental bushes on which Penderecki learned the craft.
Catawba rosebay - Read more
Penderecki postponed the choice of perennials and flowers till the last stage of designing the park.
Canna lilies - Read more- Read moreThe Gate
- Read moreThe old part in the morning
- Read moreBehind the manor
- Read moreValley
Stabat Mater - Read moreDid Krzysztof Penderecki write the whole during one afternoon on a Baltic beach?
The Avant-Garde on the Danube - Read moreHow the Polish composer spread his wings in a little German town?
Three Pieces in Old Style: Aria - Read moreJewels of the Rococo taken out of the soundtrack of a cinematic masterpiece.
St. Luke Passion: Miserere - Read moreMeasuring up to Bach himself: Impudence, courage, or both?
Kubrick [...] approached me with a request to let him illustrate his movie... Kubrick’s Hot Theme - Read more
Violin Concerto No. 1 - Read moreThis vast composition, Romantic in spirit, proved a breakthrough in the composer’s output.
Symphony No.8 mainly grew out of my fascination with Polish and German poetry... A Symphony for Trees - Read more
Polish Requiem: Agnus Dei - Read moreOne of the first episodes of Penderecki’s musical commentary on Polish history.
Polish and American Horrors - Read morePenderecki’s early works were employed to create a sense of dread… in Hollywood movies.
Viola Concerto: part no. 6 (Vivo) - Read moreThis work, abounding in sharp contrasts, was written in Lusławice park in the spring.
Song of Cherubim - Read moreAnother proof of the composer’s fascination with Eastern Orthodox music and rite.
The dissident religious tradition was one of the decisive factors Infidels in Lusławice - Read more
Sinfonietta No.2: movement I, Notturno – Adagio - Read moreCan the season of the year influence the style of a music composition? And in what ways?
Composing the garden has, for me, much in common with composing a musical work... Composing the Garden - Read more
Symphony No. 7 ‘Seven Gates of Jerusalem’: De profundis - Read morePenderecki’s cantata-style tribute to Jerusalem for the 3000th anniversary of the city’s foundation.
Symphony No.8 ‘Lieder der Vergänglichkeit’, Song No. 4, Bei einer Linde - Read moreLong-planned by the composer, this symphony is dedicated to… trees.
I have turned to the form of the symphony in order to absorb and process the experience of our century... The Symphony as an Ark - Read more
The Speckled Duck - Read morePenderecki and music for children? This little piece is an exception that contradicts stereotypes.
It is an illusion that one can hide in a labyrinth... In Pyjamas to the Park - Read more
Horn Concerto ‘Winterreise’ - Read moreFor Krzysztof Penderecki’s ancestors, winter was the hunting season.
Hitchcock and Lynch meet here, but all the effects serve the purpose of expression.
Anaklasis - Read moreThis was the piece that launched Krzysztof Penderecki on a European career.
Capriccio - Read moreThe first of Penderecki’s numerous caprices – and the oboe’s colourful display.
Symphony No. 3: 4th movement (Passacaglia) - Read moreThe majestic fourth movement of this symphony can be heard in Scorsese’s movie.
One section from a monumental work with which Penderecki conquered America.
I Sinfonietta - Read moreThis setting of String Trio wins the audience’s hearts with its airy lightness.
Ciaccona in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II - Read moreA refined Baroque form, used in a piece for the pope’s death.
The composer’s first setting of Polish poetry in many years.
I met Rostropovich after a concert at Carnegie Hall, where he conducted his orchestra, the US National Symphony Orchestra...
It is enough for me to read a poem and I can already hear the musical setting...
My beloved uncle Mieczysław took me hunting several times before 1939...
I approached a physician acquaintance of mine with a request to play the Threnody... Brain waves and sound waves - Read more
There are compositions, especially short ones, which emerged spontaneously, written continuously from the start to the end... The haunting motif of the Adagietto - Read more
During the Polish Radio Choir’s tour to Rome, we visited the Pope at Castel Gandolfo, and he wanted us to sing for him, very much... The fallible Pope - Read more
"All that Penderecki wrote came genuinely from his heart,” claims Anne-Sophie Mutter, the dedicatee of Violin Concerto No. 2 ‘Metamorphoses’. Thanks to the gardens and trees, “we will celebrate him […] also as a guardian of our habitat” in the age of global warming, she emphasises.
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