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Górecki

British  
/ ɡɔˈrɛkɪ /

noun

  1. Henryk ( Mikołaj ). 1933–2010, Polish composer, best known for his sombre third symphony (1979)

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That was this piece by Górecki, that the Kronos Quartet recorded that is just a fantastic piece of music.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

Pieces by Guy Barash and Allen Shultz will be performed alongside the noted Henryk Górecki work “Lerchenmusik.”

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2016

A Symphony from the beyond: Henryk Górecki died before he could finish his Fourth Symphony, which the Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned as a companion to Brahms for a festival four years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2015

Górecki belonged to a phalanx of composers that came to the fore after the Second World War, testing the limits of artistic expression in Communist Poland.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 30, 2015

The fact that Górecki withheld that quartet for a decade before finally releasing it to the Kronos Quartet, his longtime advocates, suggests a conflicted relationship with the mass public that had gathered around him.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 30, 2015