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Górecki

Author: Adrian Thomas
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Series: Oxford studies of composers.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The Polish composer Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (born 1933) achieved world-wide renown in 1992 when his Third Symphony, written in 1976, was recorded on CD and became an international bestseller. It is now one of the best known musical compositions of recent years, yet Gorecki's other music is still relatively little known. This study, the first detailed account of his works in any language, provides biographical
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Genre/Form: Biographies
Named Person: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki; Henryk Mikołaj Górecki; Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Adrian Thomas
ISBN: 0198163932 9780198163930 0198163940 9780198163947
OCLC Number: 34919789
Description: xviii, 187 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
Contents: Preludium xiii --
I Songs of Joy and Rhythm 1 --
II Collisions 12 --
III Genesis 39 --
IV Old Polish Music 55 --
V Sacred Songs 69 --
VI Broad Waters 101 --
VII Quasi una fantasia 117.
Series Title: Oxford studies of composers.
Responsibility: Adrian Thomas.
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Abstract:

The Polish composer Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (born 1933) achieved world-wide renown in 1992 when his Third Symphony, written in 1976, was recorded on CD and became an international bestseller. It is now one of the best known musical compositions of recent years, yet Gorecki's other music is still relatively little known. This study, the first detailed account of his works in any language, provides biographical information as background to the music, and is by a leading enthusiast of Gorecki's music.

Adrian Thomas discusses Gorecki's position as leader of the Polish avant-garde in the late 1950s, and his discovery of the folk and church music of Old Poland, notably that of the Podhale region in southern Poland. He describes Gorecki's unmistakable musical world, from the large orchestral scores (Scontri, Refrain, the Symphonies) and the choral works (Beatus Vir, commissioned by and dedicated to Pope John Paul II), to the chamber music and the small-scale church songs and folk-song arrangements. There is a complete list of works since 1955 with details of instrumentation and recordings, and a select bibliography.

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