The Polish School (also known as New Polish School) is the music of several post-1945 Polish composers who share generational and stylistic similarities. Representatives include Tadeusz Baird, Henryk Górecki, Wojciech Kilar, Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Grażyna Bacewicz, and Kazimierz Serocki.[1][2] According to Polish music scholar Adrian Thomas, Zygmunt Mycielski used the term at the Łagów conference in 1949, and it was later used at the 1956 Warsaw Autumn festival.[3] Their common purpose was in part retrospective, reacting to socialist realism, and in part speculative.[3] Sound mass and sonorism influenced these post-war composers.[4]
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edit- Pollack, Howard (1999). Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man. Henry Holt and Company
- Rappoport-Gelfand, Lidia (1991). Musical Life in Poland: The Postwar Years, 1945-1977. Gordon and Breach
- Thomas, Adrian (2005). Polish Music Since Szymanowski. Cambridge University Press
Further reading
edit- Steib, Murray (2013). Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism. Routledge
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