This composer featured metal percussion and six double basses in the third part of his opus 19Genesis, and he used text drawn from several psalms to create a work honoring the 900th anniversaryof a certain saint's martyrdom in his Beatus Vir.
This composer featured metal percussion and six double basses in the third part of his opus 19Genesis, and he used text drawn from several psalms to create a work honoring the 900th anniversaryof a certain saint's martyrdom in his Beatus Vir. He uses simple homophonic texture in his MarianSongs and his later choral work Totus Tuus which was composed for Pope (*) John Paul II. His mostfamous work has three movements including one where a mother searches for her son killed in theSilesian uprisings and one containing a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World WarII. For 10 points, name this Polish composer of the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.
This composer featured metal percussion and six double basses in the third part of his opus 19Genesis, and he used text drawn from several psalms to create a work honoring the 900th anniversaryof a certain saint's martyrdom in his Beatus Vir.
Henryk Gorecki