The Kronos Quartet commissioned three string quartets from this composer: ...songs are sung, Quasi unafantasia, and Already it is dusk.
The Kronos Quartet commissioned three string quartets from this composer: ...songs are sung, Quasi unafantasia, and Already it is dusk. One of this composer's pieces opens with a movement scored for tubularbells and piano; the title of that work can be interpreted as either "Polish woman" or "polka". Performancesof this composer's harpsichord concerto only about nine minutes, and it bears more than a passingresemblance to his Three Pieces in Olden Style. Part of the text in this composer's most popular workderives from a message scribbled on the wall of a Gestapo prison cell in Zakopane, at the foot of the TatrasMountains. That work is featured on an extremely popular recording featuring Dawn Upshaw as thesoprano. For 10 points, identify this composer whose third symphony is known as the Symphony ofSorrowful Songs
The Kronos Quartet commissioned three string quartets from this composer: ...songs are sung, Quasi unafantasia, and Already it is dusk.
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki