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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 542,909 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Henryk Górecki is the 238th most popular composer (down from 223rd in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Poland (down from 167th 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."

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  • 540k

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Henryk Górecki ranks 238 out of 1,216Before him are Engelbert Humperdinck, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Otto Nicolai, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Niels Gade, and Giacomo Carissimi. After him are Francesco Geminiani, Luigi Nono, Emmanuel Chabrier, Ion Ivanovici, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Carl Stamitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Henryk Górecki ranks 64Before him are Larry King, Ilia II of Georgia, Edward de Bono, Corazon Aquino, Than Shwe, and Edmund Phelps. After him are Tomislav Ivić, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Antonio Negri, Elizabeth Montgomery, David McCallum, and Mathieu Kérékou. Among people deceased in 2010, Henryk Górecki ranks 34Before him are Blake Edwards, Néstor Kirchner, Algirdas Brazauskas, Paul Schäfer, Louise Bourgeois, and Bruno Cremer. After him are Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, Alice Miller, Joan Sutherland, Harry Mulisch, and John Forsythe.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Henryk Górecki ranks 194 out of 1,454Before him are Felix Hausdorff (1868), William I of Württemberg (1781), Jan Potocki (1761), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), and Albert Marth (1828). After him are Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Hans Lammers (1879), Hermann Balck (1893), Józef Gosławski (1908), Günter Blobel (1936), and Paul Tillich (1886).

Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Henryk Górecki ranks 4Before him are Frédéric Chopin (1810), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), and Witold Lutosławski (1913). After him are Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Martin Agricola (1486), Józef Elsner (1769), and Maria Szymanowska (1789).