Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki

(1933-2010)

Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (1933-2010)

Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (December 6, 1933–November 12, 2010) was born close to the industrial city of Katowice in southern Poland, where he studied music and taught at the city's music academy.

Górecki's music covers a variety of styles, but tends towards relative harmonic and rhythmical simplicity. He is considered to be a founder of the New Polish School, and his first works were in the avant-garde style of Pierre Boulez and other serialists. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Górecki progressively moved away from his early career as radical modernist, and began to compose with a more traditional, romantic mode of expression.

He was best known for his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, which was composed in 1976 and sold more than a million copies following a 1992 re-release.

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Works

Amen, Op. 35

Beatus Vir, Op. 38

Broad waters

Cantata for organ, Op. 26

Canticum Graduum, Op. 27

Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, Op. 40

Concerto-Cantata, Op. 65

Euntes Ibant et Flebant, Op. 32

Five Kurpian Songs, Op. 75

Four Preludes for Piano, Op. 1

Good Night, 'In Memoriam Michael Vyner', Op. 63

Kleines Requiem fur eine Polka, Op. 66

Lerchenmusik

Lobgesang, Op. 76

Miserere, Op. 44

Musiquette 4, Op. 28, 'Trombone Concerto'

O Domina nostra, Op. 55

Refrain for orchestra

Salve, Sidus Polonorum, Op. 72

String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62 'Already it is dusk'

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64 'Quasi una fantasia'

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67 '...songs are sung'

Symphony No. 2, Op. 31, 'Copernican'

Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'

Szeroka Woda, 'Oh, Our River Narew', Op. 39

Three dances, Op. 34

Three Pieces in the Old Style

Totus Tuus, Op. 60

Wislo moja, 'My Vistula', Op. 46

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