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Polish Music Has Flowered In The Twentieth Century, With The Emergence Of Artists Whose International Stature Has Been Achieved By Few Native Composers Of Earlier Generations - Chopin And Szymanowski Being Foremost Among Them. Yet The Four Poles Whose Story Is Told Here - Andrzej Panufnik (1914-91), Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94), Krzystof Penderecki (b. 1933), And Henryk Gorecki (b. 1933) - Are Noted For Their Development Of Radically Differing Creative Approaches, In Spite Of A Common National Background. Key Elements In That Background Are Poland's Folk And Art Music; The Roman Catholic Tradition; And The Sequence Of Political Regimes - Nazi, Communist, And Post-communist - By Which All Were Affected. For Penderecki And Gorecki, Being Of A Younger Generation, The Music Of Panufnik And Lutoslawski Is Also Part Of Their Shared Experience. Against The Varied Canvas Of Musical Styles Practised In The Latter Half Of The Twentieth Century - Including, On The One Hand, Serialism And Its Intellectual Spin-offs, And On The Other, The Use Of Chance Procedures, The 'new Simplicity', And Minimalism - The Author Dramatizes The Position Of These Four Composers, Showing How Each Transcends The M

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Author

Bernard Jacobson

Publisher

Phaidon Press Ltd

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780714832517

Category

music

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.78 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14