The Polish composer, Krzysztof Penderecki, established a reputation as one of the most revolutionary composers of the 20th century, his early scores gaining a cult status among modernists. The deeply disturbing Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima of 1960 has become one of his best known orchestral scores. In the mid-1960s Penderecki returned to a more traditional style of composing. In the Third Symphony, written during 1988–1995 he has produced a work consciously related to the great symphonies of the past century, yet clearly of the present era.