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Showing posts with label Symphony No. 3. “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”. The Second Movement. Composed by: Henryk Górecki. To Commemorate The Memory Of Those Lost During The Holocaust.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Symphony No. 3. “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”. The Second Movement. Composed by: Henryk Górecki. To Commemorate The Memory Of Those Lost During The Holocaust.. Show all posts

Tuesday 8 August 2023

Symphony No. 3. “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”. The Second Movement. Composed by: Henryk Górecki. To Commemorate The Memory Of Those Lost During The Holocaust.

 


Symphony No. 3.
“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”.
The Second Movement.
Composed by: Henryk Górecki.
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Polish Composer.
Photo: 1993.
Source:
Scanned from Polish Monthly Magazine "Studio".
November/December 1993. Page 8.
Author: Lech Kowalski and Włodzimierz Pniewski.
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Flag of Poland (with coat of arms).svg

English: State Flag of Poland with Coat-of-Arms.
Symbolic version.
Polski: Flaga Polski z godłem, wersja symboliczna. Oparta na Image:Flag of Poland.svg i Image:Herb Polski.svg. Uwaga: godło użyte w tej grafice nie jest oficjalne. Oficjalna wersja godła nie jest jeszcze dostępna w formacie wektorowym, stąd zamieszczono poniżej dodatkową wersję tej grafiki w formacie PNG, w której użyto poprawnego wizerunku godła.
Date: 26 June 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: AotearoaWanted
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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

Henryk Górecki was largely unknown outside Poland until the Mid- to Late-1980s, and his fame arrived in the 1990s.[12] In 1992, fifteen years after it was composed, a recording of his Third Symphony, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs — recorded with soprano Dawn Upshaw and released to commemorate the memory of those lost during The Holocaust — became a worldwide commercial and critical success, selling more than a million copies and vastly exceeding the typical lifetime sales of a recording of symphonic music by a 20th-Century Composer.

As surprised as anyone at its popularity, Górecki said: “Perhaps people find something they need in this piece of music [...] somehow I hit the right note, something they were missing. Something somewhere had been lost to them. I feel that I instinctively knew what they needed”.[13]

This popular acclaim did not generate wide interest in Górecki's other works,[14] and he pointedly resisted the temptation to repeat earlier success, or compose for commercial reward.

Apart from two brief periods studying in Paris and a short time living in Berlin, Górecki spent most of his life in Southern Poland.
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