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The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs ( Polish: Symfonia pieśni żałosnych ), is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. The work is indicative of the transition between Górecki's earlier dissonant style and his later more tonal ...
Henryk Górecki. Henryk Mikołaj Górecki ( / ɡəˈrɛtski / gə-RET-skee, Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk miˈkɔwaj ɡuˈrɛt͡skʲi] ⓘ; [1] 6 December 1933 – 12 November 2010) [2] [3] 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. [4]
The Polish composer Władysław Szpilman survived the Holocaust. The film The Pianist is based on his life. Ronald Senator. Dmitri Shostakovich [3] Leo Smit [35] Ben Steinberg [3] Karlheinz Stockhausen [36] Karel Švenk (1917–1945) [37] Władysław Szpilman [38]
Shony Alex Braun. Shony Alex Braun (born Sándor Braun; Cristuru-Secuiesc, Romania, July 14, 1924 [1] – Los Angeles, California, October 4, 2002) [2] was a Romanian-born Hungarian Jewish violinist, Holocaust survivor, classical composer and actor. He played bit parts in the TV shows Perry Mason, WKRP in Cincinnati and the film '68. [3]
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish" is a programmatic choral symphony by Leonard Bernstein, published in 1963. It is a dramatic work written for a large orchestra, a full choir, a boys' choir, a soprano soloist and a narrator. "Kaddish" refers to the Jewish prayer that is chanted at every synagogue service for the dead but never mentions "death."
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz ( Mädchenorchester von Auschwitz; lit. "Girls' Orchestra of Auschwitz") was formed by order of the SS in 1943, during the Holocaust, in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] [2] Active for 19 months—from April 1943 until October 1944—the orchestra consisted of mostly ...
Herbert Zipper (April 27, 1904 in Vienna, Austria – April 21, 1997 in Santa Monica, California) was an internationally renowned composer, conductor, and arts activist.As an inmate at Dachau concentration camp in the late 1930s, he arranged to have crude musical instruments constructed out of stolen material, and formed a small secret orchestra which performed on Sunday afternoons for the ...
S. Schindler's List (soundtrack) A Survivor from Warsaw. Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 21 (Weinberg)
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