Henryk Górecki obituary

Polish composer best known for his Symphony of Sorrowful SongsIn the mid-1990s, the Third Symphony, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, by Henryk Górecki, who has died aged 76, was one of the best-known works by a living composer. It uses simple, spare settings of Polish materials – the late 15th-century Holy Cross Lament, a wartime piece of graffiti and a folksong, the melody as well as the words, from the Opole region on Poland's south-west border – that led some to identify a new spiri...

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