Conversation so far:
What was Henryk Górecki's style like?
Gorecki's music covers a variety of styles, but tends towards relative harmonic and rhythmical simplicity.
How about his compositions?
His first works, dating from the last half of the 1950s, were in the avant-garde style of Webern and other serialists of that time.
Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
Danuta Mirka has shown that Gorecki's compositional techniques in the 1960s.
What songs he made?
Epitaph (1958), First Symphony (1959), and Scontri (1960) (Mirka 2004, p.
305).
Did any hit the billboard?
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What else was going on with Henryk?
During the middle 1960s and early 1970s, Gorecki progressively moved away from his early career as radical modernist.
Where did he move to?
moved away from his early career as radical modernist, and began to compose with a more traditional, romantic mode of expression.
Was he successful?
by the mid-1970s Gorecki was no longer regarded as a composer that mattered.

Question: What was he considered in the 1970s?
Self-contained rewrite: What songs of Henryk Górecki was considered in the 1970s?