List Of Compositions By Henryk Górecki
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki ( , ; 6 December 1933 – 12 November 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. This incomplete list of his compositions is sorted by opus number or date when no opus number is provided. Much of Górecki's work has been published by Boosey & Hawkes, which holds the rights for most of the world except in "countries of the former socialist copyright federation," where Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne holds the rights. Works Published * Four Preludes, Op. 1, piano (1955) * Toccata for two pianos, Op. 2 * Three Songs, Op. 3 (1956) ** No. 1 ''Do matki'' – To Mother ** No. 2 ''Jakiż to dzwon grobowy'' – What was this Funeral Bell ** No. 3 ''Ptak'' – The Bird * Variations for violin and piano, Op. 4 * Quartettino, Op. 5, two flutes, oboe, violin (1956) * Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 6, piano (1956, revised 1984, 1990) * Songs of Joy and Rhythm, Op. 7, piano and chamber orchestra (1956, revised 1959) * Sonatina in One Movement, Op. 8, violin ...
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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Polish Composer
Henryk may refer to: * Henryk (given name) * Henryk, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, a village in south-central Poland * Henryk Glacier, an Antarctic glacier See also * Henryk Batuta hoax, an internet hoax * Henrykian articles The Henrician Articles or King Henry's Articles (Polish: ''Artykuły henrykowskie'', Latin: ''Articuli Henriciani'') were a permanent contract between the "Polish nation" (the szlachta, or nobility, of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) and a ...

Beatus Vir (Górecki)
''Beatus Vir'', Op. 38, subtitled ''Psalm for baritone, large mixed chorus and grand orchestra'', is a musical psalm setting written by Henryk Górecki in 1979 . The text is drawn from several psalms ( 143:1,6-10; 31:16; 88:2; 67:7; 34:9), and the title is from the last of these: "Blest is the man that trusteth in Him". The work was premiered on 9 June 1979, in Kraków, Poland, with Baritone Jerzy Mechlinski and the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by the composer. The work was a commission by then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyła (later selected Pope John Paul II) for the commemoration on the 900th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Stanisław. ''Beatus Vir'' was intended as the first work in a larger cycle entitled ''Sancti tui Domine florebunt sicut lilium''. No other works of the cycle were completed, however Górecki stated that the next piece in the cycle would be entitled '' Offertorium''. Górecki spent more time selecting the texts for ''Beatus Vir'' than ...
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Adrian Thomas (composer)
Adrian Thomas is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardiff University School of Music. He specializes in Polish Music. Academic career Thomas began his professional career at Queen's University Belfast in 1973. Between 1983 and 1984, he was a visiting fellow at University of California, San Diego, and after his return to Queen’s University he became the Hamilton Harty Professor of Music in 1985. He held this position until 1996, when he took up his role at Cardiff University. He retired in 2010. In addition to this, in 1983, 1986 and 1987, he held composition fellowships at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. Between 2003 and 2006, Thomas was the Professor of Music at Gresham College in London. Public career In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Thomas conducted concerts with the Ulster Orchestra and contemporary music ensembles such as Lontano. In the 1980s he had several compositions broadcast by BBC Radio 3, including a commission for the BBC Singers The BBC Singer ...
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Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He initially rose to fame with '' Romancero gitano'' (''Gypsy Ballads'', 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930—documented posthumously in ''Poeta en Nueva York'' (''Poet in New York'', 1942)—-he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, ''Blood Wedding'' (1932), ''Yerma'' (1934), and ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' (1936). García Lorca was gay and suffered from depression after the end ...
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Kleines Requiem Für Eine Polka
''Kleines Requiem für eine Polka'' ( pl, Małe requiem dla pewnej polki, ), Op. 66, is a requiem for piano and thirteen instruments by Polish composer Henryk Górecki. Written in 1993, it is one of the last compositions for ensemble by the composer. Background In the years leading up to the completion of the ''Requiem'', Górecki had established close ties with European and American countries, particularly the Netherlands, where his Concerto-Cantata premiered in Amsterdam in November 1992. Shortly after the premiere, the Holland Festival and the Schönberg Ensemble commissioned this piece, originally titled "Nocna Serenada" (Night Serenade), which was later premiered in June 1993 in Amsterdam as ''Kleines Requiem für eine Polka'' (Little Requiem for a Polka). Górecki has largely kept the meaning of this composition private. While he has stated that the title reflects his sadness at the breakup of Czechoslovakia, where the polka is indigenous, the word "Polka" is also re ...
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String Quartet No
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Totus Tuus (Górecki)
''Totus Tuus'' Op. 60 (English: Totally Yours) was written for unaccompanied mixed choir by the Polish composer Henryk Górecki in 1987. Górecki composed the piece to celebrate Pope John Paul II's third pilgrimage to his native Poland that summer, and the work remains his best-known, if not critically acclaimed, a cappella choral piece of the 1980s. Indeed, ''Totus Tuus'' has been described as a contemporary classic (Wordsworth 2013, p. 49). The work was performed twice during the pilgrimage: first time, at its beginning, on June 8, 1987 at the Chopin Airport in Warsaw and second time on June 14, 1987 at a High Mass held in Victory Square, Warsaw by the Choir of the Warsaw Academy of Catholic Theology. Description The libretto was taken from a poem written by contemporary writer Maria Boguslawska which is addressed to the Virgin Mary, the patron saint of Poland. ''Totus Tuuss form is ABA'CD, and marks a return to the simple homophony characteristic of Górecki's earlier Ma ...
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Miserere (Górecki)
, Op. 44 () is a choral work composed in 1981 by Henryk Górecki for large (120 voices) a cappella mixed choir. The text comprises five words: '' (''Lord our God''), which are repeated for the first ten sections, resolved by a chorus of '' (''Have mercy on us'') in the eleventh and final section. Both lines of text are sung as imploring pleas. A typical performance lasts 35 minutes. Górecki composed the work in 1981 in protest to government intervention against the Polish Solidarity trade union - specifically, in response to the government-sanctioned assault of activists in Bydgoszcz. After martial law was enacted in December of that year, performance of the piece became impossible, and the piece was not performed until 1987. The first performance took place on 10 September 1987 in St. Stanisłaus Church Włocławek, and a day later in Bydgoszcz, with conducting the Bydgoszcz Philharmonic Choir. Background Henryk Górecki dedicated his Miserere to the city of Bydgoszcz. Bydgos ...
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Harpsichord Concerto (Górecki)
Henryk Górecki's Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40, sometimes also entitled Concerto for Harpsichord (or Piano) and String Orchestra, is a concerto written for the harpsichord by the Polish composer in 1980. Background The piece was commissioned in 1980 by Andrzej Chłopecki, head of the Polish Radio Music Station, as part of the Composers Forum, a radio series featuring contemporary Polish composers, during a period when Górecki was exploring pure instrumental music after dedicating over a decade to vocal and choral works. The concerto was written for Elżbieta Chojnacka, an outstanding harpsichordist who was an expert in contemporary music for the harpsichord. The premiere performance of the concerto took place in Katowice on March 2, 1980, with Chojnacka on the harpsichord and the Polish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra with conductor Stanisław Wisłocki accompanying her. The work is dedicated to Chojnacka. The piano version premiered ten years later on April 22, 19 ...
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Symphony No
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section (violin, viola, cello, and double bass), brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians. Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts (e.g., Beethoven's Ninth Symphony). Etymology and origins The word ''symphony'' is derived from the Greek word (), meaning "agreement or concord of sound", "concert of ...
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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Henryk may refer to: * Henryk (given name) * Henryk, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, a village in south-central Poland * Henryk Glacier, an Antarctic glacier See also * Henryk Batuta hoax, an internet hoax * Henrykian articles The Henrician Articles or King Henry's Articles (Polish: ''Artykuły henrykowskie'', Latin: ''Articuli Henriciani'') were a permanent contract between the "Polish nation" (the szlachta, or nobility, of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) and a ...

Two Sacred Songs, Op
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