Who was the 20th-21st century composer of the 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'?
"works after 1970), as well as Englishman John Tavener, who unlike the New Simplicity composers have turned back to Medieval and Renaissance models, however, rather than to 19th-century romanticism for inspiration. Important representative works include Symphony No. 3 ""Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"" (1976) by Górecki, ""Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten"" (1977) by Pärt, ""The Veil of the Temple"" (2002) by Tavener, and ""Silent Songs"" (1974–1977) by Valentin Silvestrov. New Complexity is a current within today's European contemporary avant-garde music scene, named in reaction to the New Simplicity. Amongst the candidates suggested for having coined the term are the composer Nigel"
"Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (born Leon Dudley Sorabji; 14 August 1892 – 15 October 1988) was an English composer, music critic, pianist and writer. He was one of the 20th century's most prolific piano composers. As a composer and pianist, Sorabji was largely self-taught, and he distanced himself from the main currents of contemporary musical life early in his career. He developed a highly idiosyncratic musical language, with roots in composers as diverse as Busoni, Debussy and Szymanowski, and he dismissed large portions of the established and contemporary repertoire. A reluctant performer, Sorabji played a few of his"
"less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No. 2 and the hugely popular Symphony No. 3 (""Symphony of Sorrowful Songs""). This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 ""Beatus Vir"", to the 1981 choral hymn ""Miserere"", the 1993 ""Kleines Requiem für eine Polka"" and his requiem ""Good Night"". He was largely unknown outside Poland until the mid-to late 1980s, and his fame arrived in the 1990s. In 1992, 15 years after it was composed, a recording of his Third Symphony, ""Symphony of Sorrowful Songs""—recorded with soprano Dawn Upshaw and released"
"his death. In 1984–1985, Alfred Schnittke, a classical composer of mixed Jewish and Volga German descent, composed a Choral concerto consisting of prayers from Saint Gregory's ""Book of Lamentations"", which had been translated into Russian by Naum Grebnev. A Christian mystic living in the militantly Atheist Soviet Union, Schnittke drew heavily on the traditional choral music of the Russian Orthodox Church while writing the Concerto. The result has been called one of the greatest choral works ever composed during the 20th century. Armen Nersisyan, a professor of psychiatry, developed a unique type of therapy based on Gregory of Narek's ""Book"
"the 19th century when openly displaying one's Jewishness would most likely hamper a Jew's chances at assimilation. During the 20th century, however, many Jewish composers wrote music with direct Jewish references and themes, e.g. David Amram (""Symphony – ""Songs of the Soul""""), Leonard Bernstein (""Kaddish Symphony"", ""Chichester Psalms""), Ernest Bloch (""Schelomo""), Arnold Schoenberg, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (""Violin Concerto no. 2"") Kurt Weill (""The Eternal Road"") and Hugo Weisgall (""Psalm of the Instant Dove""). In the late twentieth century, prominent composers like Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti or Alfred Schnittke gave significant contributions to the history of contemporary music The great songwriters and"
"Samuel Barber Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century; music critic Donal Henahan stated that ""probably no other American composer has ever enjoyed such early, such persistent and such long-lasting acclaim."". His ""Adagio for Strings"" (1936) has earned a permanent place in the concert repertory of orchestras. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music twice: for his opera ""Vanessa"" (1956–57) and for the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1962). Also widely performed"
"Theatre and Performance. A full catalogue and details of access arrangements are available here. Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent"
"Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as"
"oppressive, droning, painfully self-important."" Michael White of ""The Daily Telegraph"" described Glass' ""Violin Concerto No. 2"" as being Best Original Score Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music Best Original Score Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been described as ""minimal music"", having similar qualities to other ""minimalist"" composers such as La Monte Young, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley. Glass describes himself as a composer of ""music with repetitive structures"", which he has helped evolve stylistically."
"Sorrowful Songs"" ""(Symfonia pieśni żałosnych)"". The work is slow and contemplative, and each of the three movements is composed for orchestra and solo soprano. The libretto for the first movement is taken from a 15th-century lament, while the second movement uses the words of a teenage girl, Helena Błażusiak, which she wrote on the wall of a Gestapo prison cell in Zakopane to invoke the protection of the Virgin Mary. The third uses the text of a Silesian folk song which describes the pain of a mother searching for a son killed in the Silesian uprisings. The dominant themes of"
"Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky to his students; Ligeti was saved only because of the personal protection of Zoltán Kodály. Khrennikov and other functionaries of the Composers‘ Union constantly attacked the heritage of the Russian avant-garde as well as its researchers. For example, the German musicologist Detlef Gojowy (1934–2008) was persecuted because of his promotion in the West of modern Soviet music of the 1920s. Gojowy was proclaimed to be an ""anti-Soviet writer"" – till 1989 he was forbidden to visit the Soviet Union and some of his publications that he sent to Soviet colleagues were intercepted by Soviet"
"Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important (; ; ; ) but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. A critic calls him ""one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"" . He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance (aleatory techniques or aleatoric musical techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization. He was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, later studying with Olivier Messiaen"
"texts referencing the separation of mothers and children to the then current political situation. Symphony No. 3 (Górecki) The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (), is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. The work is indicative of the transition between Górecki's dissonant earlier manner and his more tonal later style. It was premièred on 4 April 1977, at the Royan International Festival, with Stefania Woytowicz as soprano and Ernest Bour as conductor. A solo soprano sings Polish texts in each of"
"Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (, ; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Soviet chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government. Nevertheless, he received accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1947) and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (from 1962 until his death). A polystylist, Shostakovich developed a hybrid voice, combining a variety of different musical"
"Edward Elgar, Gustav Mahler, Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen, Igor Stravinsky, Bohuslav Martinů, Roger Sessions, and Dmitri Shostakovich composed symphonies ""extraordinary in scope, richness, originality, and urgency of expression"" (Steinberg 1995, 404). One measure of the significance of a symphony is the degree to which it reflects conceptions of temporal form particular to the age in which it was created. Five composers from across the span of the 20th century who fulfil this measure are Sibelius, Stravinsky, Luciano Berio (in his Sinfonia, 1968–69), Elliott Carter (in his ""Symphony of Three Orchestras"", 1976), and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (in ""Symphony/Antiphony"", 1980). Beginning in the"
"Symphony of Psalms The Symphony of Psalms is a three-movement choral symphony composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1930 during his neoclassical period. The work was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The symphony derives its name from the use of Psalm texts in the choral parts. According to Stravinsky, the commission for the work came about from ""a routine suggestion"" from Koussevitzky, who was also Stravinsky's publisher, that he write something ""popular"" for orchestra without chorus. Stravinsky, however, insisted on the psalm-symphony idea, which he had had in mind for some time."
"to depression and alcohol abuse, and was at one time hospitalized. He was also well known as a serial womanizer. Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music. Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top"
"Sorabji's pieces have even been described as forerunners of the music of Nancarrow. According to Habermann, ""The rhythmic structures within brackets [in Sorabji's nocturnes] predate the complicated rhythms of Messiaen and Stockhausen."" Habermann also argues that Sorabji's fusion of tonality and atonality into a different approach to relationships between harmonies is a significant innovation. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (born Leon Dudley Sorabji; 14 August 1892 – 15 October 1988) was an English composer, music critic, pianist and writer. He was one of the 20th century's most prolific piano composers. As a composer and pianist, Sorabji was largely self-taught,"
"Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich ""Slava"" Rostropovich (, ""Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič"", ; 27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He is considered to be one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commissioning new works, which enlarged the cello repertoire more than any cellist before or since. He inspired and premiered over 100 pieces, forming long-standing friendships and artistic partnerships with composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutosławski, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke,"
"LP. Despite the attribution, the conductor was Aleksandr Gauk. A short sound film of Prokofiev playing some of the music from his opera ""War and Peace"" and then explaining the music has been discovered. Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from ""The Love for Three Oranges,"" the suite ""Lieutenant Kijé"", the"
"Vienna, Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Tonhalle in Zürich, Davies Hall in San Francisco, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Konzerthaus in Berlin. Her concert repertoire includes Henryk Górecki's ""Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"" which she recorded to high acclaim with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kazimierz Kord in 1994. Kozłowska interpreted Strauss' ""Vier letzte Lieder"", Mahler's second and forth as well as Rachmaninoff's ""The Bells"". She also sung the soprano parts in Mozart's ""Requiem"", Poulenc's ""Gloria"" and Britten's ""War Requiem"". In the US she has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, with the Grand Rapids Symphony and at the"
"Karl Amadeus Hartmann Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. Sometimes described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries. Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts. He was much affected in his early political development by the events of the unsuccessful Workers’ Revolution in Bavaria that followed the collapse of the German empire"
"""pedes meos"" from the second, and ""in cymbalis"" from the third. Symphony of Psalms The Symphony of Psalms is a three-movement choral symphony composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1930 during his neoclassical period. The work was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The symphony derives its name from the use of Psalm texts in the choral parts. According to Stravinsky, the commission for the work came about from ""a routine suggestion"" from Koussevitzky, who was also Stravinsky's publisher, that he write something ""popular"" for orchestra without chorus. Stravinsky, however, insisted on the"
"serious concert instrument in the latter part of the 20th century are Ferdinand Conrad, Kees Otten, Frans Brüggen, Roger Cotte, Hans-Martin Linde, Bernard Krainis, and David Munrow. Brüggen recorded most of the landmarks of the historical repertoire and commissioned a substantial number of new works for the recorder. Munrow's 1975 double album ""The Art of the Recorder"" remains as an important anthology of recorder music through the ages. Among late 20th-century and early 21st-century recorder ensembles, the trio Sour Cream (led by Frans Brüggen), Flautando Köln, the Flanders Recorder Quartet, Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet and Quartet New Generation have programmed"
"importance of amateur music-making, and intentionally wrote pieces that were within the abilities of nonprofessional players. Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the most prolific of chamber music composers of the 20th century, writing 15 string quartets, two piano trios, the piano quintet, and numerous other chamber works. Shostakovich's music was for a long time banned in the Soviet Union and Shostakovich himself was in personal danger of deportation to Siberia. His eighth quartet is an autobiographical work, that expresses his deep depression from his ostracization, bordering on suicide: it quotes from previous compositions, and uses the four-note motif DSCH, the"
"imitating the sound of a local Moravian town band), and this type of Jewish reference was most common during the 19th century when openly displaying one's Jewishness would most likely hamper a Jew's chances at assimilation. During the 20th century, however, many Jewish composers wrote music with direct Jewish references and themes, e.g. David Amram (""Symphony – ""Songs of the Soul""""), Leonard Bernstein (""Kaddish Symphony"", ""Chichester Psalms""), Ernest Bloch (""Schelomo""), Ezra Laderman, (""Symphony No. 3 - Jerusalem"", ""And David Wept""), Arnold Schoenberg (see ), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (""Violin Concerto no. 2"") Kurt Weill (""The Eternal Road"") and Hugo Weisgall (""Psalm of"
"Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from ""The Love for Three Oranges,"" the suite ""Lieutenant Kijé"", the ballet ""Romeo and Juliet""—from which ""Dance of the Knights"" is taken—and ""Peter and the Wolf."" Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas,"
"1557 and 1601. Notable 20th-century spatial compositions include Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony (1912–18), Rued Langgaard's ""Music of the Spheres"" (1916–18), Edgard Varèse's ""Poème électronique"" (Expo '58), Henryk Górecki's ""Scontri"", op. 17 (1960), which unleashes a volume of sound with a ""tremendous orchestra"" for which the composer precisely dictates the placement of each player onstage, including fifty-two percussion instruments, Karlheinz Stockhausen's ""Helicopter String Quartet"" (1992–93/95), which is ""arguably the most extreme experiment involving the spatial motility of live performers"", and Henry Brant's ""Ice Field"", a ""'spatial narrative,'"" or ""spatial organ concerto,"" awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Music, as well as"
"Seymour Shifrin Seymour Shifrin (28 February 1926 – 26 September 1979) was an American composer. He was described by ""Time Magazine"" as ""one of the most significant composers of his generation."" Shifrin's ""Satires of Circumstance"" (1964, text by Thomas Hardy) received the Koussevitzky International Recording Award for 1970. He received the Naumburg Award, Columbia University's Bearns Prize (1949), the Copley Award, the Horblit Prize (1963), and two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1956 and 1960. A graduate of Columbia University (M.A., 1947), he was a member of the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley (1952–66) and at Brandeis University from"
"Great Pianists of the 20th Century – Martha Argerich Great Pianists of the 20th Century – Martha Argerich is the second volume of the Great Pianists of the 20th Century box set and is the first of two volumes dedicated to her. The album features music by the composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maurice Ravel. The works were recorded between 1967 and 1982. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124± Piano Concerto in G major±± Sonatine Gaspard de la nuit Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30±±± Partita No."
"Robert Simpson (composer) Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson (2 March 1921 – 21 November 1997) was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster. He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music (particularly those in the key classical forms: 11 symphonies and 15 string quartets), and for his writings on the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells. Remarkably for a living contemporary composer, a Robert Simpson Society was formed in 1980 by individuals concerned that Simpson's music had been unfairly neglected. The Society aims to bring Simpson's music to a wider"
"Burt Bacharach Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. , he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music. His music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced by his background"
"Richard Einhorn Richard Einhorn (born 1952) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Einhorn graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1975, and studied composition and electronic music with Jack Beeson, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Mario Davidovsky. His best-known work, ""Voices of Light"" (1994) is an oratorio scored for soloists, chorus, orchestra and a bell. It was inspired by Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent film ""The Passion of Joan of Arc"" (1928). He has also composed many horror and thriller film scores, including ""Shock Waves"" (1977), ""Don't Go in the House"" (1980), ""Eyes of a Stranger"""