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Henryk Górecki

1933 - 2010

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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki ( gə-RET-skee, Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk miˈkɔwaj ɡuˈrɛt͡skʲi] ; 6 December 1933 – 12 November 2010) 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 modernism and influenced by Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henryk Górecki is the 277th most popular composer (down from 241st in 2019), the 229th most popular biography from Poland (down from 209th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Composer.

Henryk Górecki is most famous for his Symphony No. 3, which is also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs."

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Henryk Górecki ranks 277 out of 1,451. Before him are Howard Shore, Johann Christoph Bach, Friedrich Kuhlau, Steve Reich, Miklós Rózsa, and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. After him are Anton Reicha, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, György Kurtág, Hanns Eisler, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Eduard Hanslick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Henryk Górecki ranks 83. Before him are Horst Buchholz, Wilbur Smith, Sam Jones, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Teresa Berganza, and Waichiro Omura. After him are Tomislav Ivić, Franz, Duke of Bavaria, Yasukazu Tanaka, Yuri Oganessian, Oliver Sacks, and Edward de Bono. Among people deceased in 2010, Henryk Górecki ranks 40. Before him are Alice Miller, Dino De Laurentiis, Miep Gies, Vladimir Arnold, Joan Sutherland, and Francisco Varallo. After him are Stjepan Bobek, Arthur Penn, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Blake Edwards, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, and Enzo Bearzot.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Henryk Górecki ranks 229 out of 1,694. Before him are Mieszko II Lambert (990), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Catherine Opalińska (1680), Yisrael Kristal (1903), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), and Anna von Schweidnitz (1339). After him are Przemysł II (1257), Wanda Landowska (1879), Robert Luther (1822), Ernst Toller (1893), Adolf Engler (1844), and Udo Lattek (1935).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Henryk Górecki ranks 4. Before him are Frédéric Chopin (1810), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), and Witold Lutosławski (1913). After him are Martin Agricola (1486), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), and Viktor Ullmann (1898).

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