COMPOSER

Henryk Górecki

1933 - 2010

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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki ( gə-RET-skee, Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk miˈkɔwaj ɡuˈrɛt͡skʲi] ; 6 December 1933 – 12 November 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. He became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henryk Górecki has received more than 578,979 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Henryk Górecki is the 241st most popular composer (down from 238th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from Poland (down from 194th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Composer.

Henryk Górecki is most famous for his Symphony No. 3, which is also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs."

Memorability Metrics

  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Henryk Górecki ranks 241 out of 1,451. Before him are Antonio Caldara, Stanisław Moniuszko, Benedetto Marcello, Charles-Marie Widor, Johan Halvorsen, and Johann Adolph Hasse. After him are Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Albert Roussel, Alfred Schnittke, Francesco Durante, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, and Otto Nicolai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Henryk Górecki ranks 66. Before him are Tomislav Ivić, Philip Zimbardo, Mathieu Kérékou, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Horst Buchholz, and Edmund Phelps. After him are Richard S. Castellano, Willie Nelson, Ali Shariati, Than Shwe, Robert Curl, and Sandra Milo. Among people deceased in 2010, Henryk Górecki ranks 36. Before him are Louise Bourgeois, Stjepan Bobek, Miep Gies, Algirdas Brazauskas, Alice Miller, and Vladimir Arnold. After him are Maria Kaczyńska, Israel Tal, Jean Simmons, James Black, Bekim Fehmiu, and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Henryk Górecki ranks 209 out of 1,694. Before him are Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Henry II the Pious (1196), B. Traven (1882), Józef Gosławski (1908), Paul Tillich (1886), and Heinrich Rickert (1863). After him are Przemysł II (1257), Karl Denke (1860), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Yisrael Kristal (1903), and Wacław Sierpiński (1882).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Henryk Górecki ranks 4. Before him are Frédéric Chopin (1810), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), and Witold Lutosławski (1913). After him are Martin Agricola (1486), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), and Maria Szymanowska (1789).

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