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A Polish Renaissance
Four Polish composers who changed the shape of music in the 20th-century.
Bernard Jacobson
Editions:
Price: USD$14.95
150 points- Paperback
- English
- 220 x 156 mm, 8 5/8 x 6 1/8 in
- 240 pp
- 80 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714832517
- ISBN-10: 0714832510
- Looks at four Polish composers, Andrzej Panufnik (1914-91), Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94), Krzystof Penderecki (b.1933) and Henryk Górecki (b.1933), who have changed the shape of music in the second half of the 20th century
- Traces the development of their radically differing creative approaches in spite of their common national origins
- Examines the changing political regimes by which they were affected and their relationship with the various musical movements of the time
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