Czwarta Symfonia Henryka Mikołaja Góreckiego jako przejaw „muzyki w muzyce”
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s Symphony No. 4 as Manifestation of ‘Music Within Music’

Summary/Abstract: A long awaited in the world, H.M. Górecki’s Symphony No. 4 ‘Tansman’s Episodes’ for grand orchestra with obbligato organ and piano was written in 2006, as a tribute to a Slav composer, Aleksander Tansman. Górecki left the short score manuscript for his son, Mikołaj Górecki, to orchestrate. The composition was commissioned by four institutions, including the Tansman International Festival of Music Personalities in Łódź, represented by the Festival director, Andrzej Wendland. After the composer’s death, the work was completed by Mikołaj Górecki and has had four premieres (London, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Łódź). The world premiere of the composition took place on April 12, 2014 in London, performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Andrey Borejko. The four-episode symphony is not a continuation of its “predecessor” – ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’, and the title of the piece misleadingly directs the audience towards the works of Tansman. The composer’s name, included in the title, becomes a musical anagram which is the building material for the symphony’s main theme. The aim of the presentation is to show the work from an intertextual perspective, as a manifestation of inclusive music in the artistic output of H.M. Górecki.

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