1933 - 2010
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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Among composers, Henryk Górecki ranks 238 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1854 - 1921
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 232
1885 - 1948
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 233
1810 - 1849
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 234
1724 - 1780
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 235
1817 - 1890
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 236
1605 - 1674
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 237
1933 - 2010
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 238
1687 - 1762
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 239
1924 - 1990
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 240
1841 - 1894
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 241
1845 - 1902
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 242
1952 - 2023
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 243
1745 - 1801
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 244
Among people born in 1933, Henryk Górecki ranks 64. Before 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 34. Before 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.
1933 - 2021
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 58
1933 - Present
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 59
1933 - 2021
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 60
1933 - 2009
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 61
1933 - Present
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 62
1933 - Present
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 63
1933 - 2010
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 64
1933 - 2011
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 65
1933 - 2012
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 66
1933 - 2023
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 67
1933 - 1995
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 68
1933 - 2023
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 69
1933 - 2015
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 70
1922 - 2010
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 28
1950 - 2010
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 29
1932 - 2010
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 30
1921 - 2010
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 31
1911 - 2010
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 32
1929 - 2010
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 33
1933 - 2010
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 34
1930 - 2010
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 35
1929 - 2010
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 36
1923 - 2010
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 37
1926 - 2010
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 38
1927 - 2010
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 39
1918 - 2010
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 40
Among people born in Poland, Henryk Górecki ranks 194 out of 1,454. Before 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).
1868 - 1942
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 188
1781 - 1864
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 189
1761 - 1815
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 190
1897 - 1968
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 191
1825 - 1895
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 192
1828 - 1897
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 193
1933 - 2010
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 194
1770 - 1861
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 195
1879 - 1962
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 196
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 197
1908 - 1963
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 198
1936 - 2018
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 199
1886 - 1965
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 200
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 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).
1810 - 1849
HPI: 88.83
Rank: 1
1933 - 2020
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 2
1913 - 1994
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 3
1933 - 2010
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 4
1854 - 1925
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 5
1881 - 1950
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 6
1687 - 1750
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 7
1834 - 1861
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 8
1919 - 1996
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 9
1486 - 1556
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 10
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 11
1789 - 1831
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 12