This study of composer Henryk Gorecki provides biographical information as background to his music. It discusses his position as leader of the Polish avant-gard... » 

This study of composer Henryk Gorecki provides biographical information as background to his music. It discusses his position as leader of the Polish avant-garde in the late 1950s, and his subsequent discovery of the folk and church music of old Poland. It includes a list of works since 1955. «