Henryk Gorecki, a Polish composer famous for his Third Symphony, also known as the “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs,” died Friday following a serious illness. He was 76. Gorecki (pronounced Go-RET-ski) ...
Composer Henryk Gorecki, whose haunting “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs” became an unlikely hit record, died Friday at his home in Poland. He was 76. Inspired in part by a prayer scratched on the wall of ...
Thirty years ago, in May 1991, a symphony was being recorded at a sound studio in northwest London — Symphony No. 3 by Polish composer Henryk Górecki. An obscure work, first composed in 1970s ...
Polish composer Henryk Gorecki died today at age 76. The news was announced this morning by the Polish National Radio Symphony. Gorecki was little known outside Poland until a 1992 recording of his ...
Polish composer Henryk Gorecki died today at age 76. The news was announced this morning by the Polish National Radio Symphony. Gorecki was little known outside Poland until a 1992 recording of his ...