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Henryk Mikoaj Grecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Grecki. Grecki became a leading figure of the Polish avantgarde during the postStalin cultural thaw. His Webernianinfluenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and drew influence from Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki. He continued in this direction throughout the 1960s, but by the mid1970s had changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No.and the hugely popular Symphony No.. This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 Beatus Vir, to the 1981 choral hymn Miserere, the 1993 Kleines Requiem fr eine Polka and his requiem Good Night.
I was born in Silesia....It is old Polish land. But there were always three cultures present Polish, Czech, and German. The folk art, all the art, had no boundaries. Polish culture is a wonderful mixture. When you look at the history of Poland, it is precisely the multiculturalism, the presence of the socalled minorities that made Poland what it was. The cultural wealth, the diversity mixed and created a new entity.
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