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Henryk Górecki
Composer Henryk Górecki born 6 December 1933 in Czernica, near Rybnik, died November 12, 2010 in Katowice.
He began his formal study of music in 1952 in the pedagogical department of the Music High School in Rybnik. Later, he studied composition under Boleslaw Szabelski, at the State Academy of Music (known today as the Academy of Music) in Katowice (1955-60).