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                              Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was born in 1933 in southwest Poland. He did not study music seriously until he was in his twenties, when he began to study at the Katowice Conservatory. He began his career as an extremely avant-garde composer, later simplifying his language. His music covers a variety of styles, but tends to be harmonically and rhythmically relatively simple. Górecki's most popular piece is his third symphony, subtitled Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Slow and contemplative, the three movements are composed for orchestra and soprano solo. The words of the first movement are from a 15th century lament; the words of the second were written by a teenage girl on the wall of a Gestapo prison cell in Zakopane and invoke the protections of the Virgin Mary; the third movement is a 19th century folk song.

Listen to :

 Symphony of sorrowful songs (No 3), op.36, part 2 ;
 Ingrid Perruche – soprano, Alain Altinoglu – conductor, Simfonia Varsovia    

                                                               Other genres

There are certainly more genders to choose from than just classical music, with numerous artists.

Here’s just one of them –

a jazz and pop singer Anna Maria Jopek (born in 1970).    

                        

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