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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. He became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. His Anton Webern-influenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant ...
Dec 11, 2010 · Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. 6.12.1933 — 12.11.2010. #music. Author: Culture.pl. Share: Composer, born on 6th December 1933 in Czernica, near Rybnik, died on 12th November 2010 in Katowice. He began his formal study of music in 1952 in the pedagogical department of the Music High School in Rybnik. Later, he studied composition under Bolesław ...
Jun 27, 2018 · Górecki, Henryk. Górecki, Henryk (1933– ) Polish composer. His early works were influenced by Webern and serial music, but his later output, such as his third symphony (1976), is inspired more by medieval Polish chants, Renaissance polyphony, and the richness of the Wagnerian orchestra. HENRYK MIKOŁAJ GÓRECKI Born: Czernica, Poland [1], 6 ...
Feb 22, 2023 · Henryk Górecki. (born Czernica, Poland 6 December 1933; died Katowice, Poland12 November 2010) One of the foremost composers in the realm of the Polish avant-garde, Górecki became the subject of international renown upon the release of his Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Whilst Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is still his best known ...
Apr 28, 2023 · Isabella Bywater’s production for ENO of Henryk Górecki’s popular Third Symphony is effective and affecting, with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya’s reading refreshingly unsentimental
1955 – 2010. Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, född den 6 december 1933 i Czernica, nära Rybnik, i Schlesien (ingående i nuvarande Śląsk ), död den 12 november 2010 i Katowice, var en polsk tonsättare, far till kompositören Mikołaj Górecki . Górecki räknas som en av Polens ledande efterkrigstonsättare tillsammans med Witold Lutosławski ...
Sep 11, 2012 · Twenty years have passed since Polish composer Henryk Górecki became one of the most talked about figures in classical music. In 1992, his painfully beautiful Third Symphony, the "Symphony of ...
