Henryk Gorecki, a Polish composer whose hauntingly beautiful Symphony No. 3, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs," became a recording phenomenon of the early 1990s, surpassing Madonna and Michael Jackson on the British pop charts, died Nov. 12 at a hospital in Katowice, Poland. He was 76 and had a lung infection and other ailments.
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Henryk Gorecki, Polish composer of surprise hit 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs,' dies at 76
Henryk Gorecki, Polish Composer, Is Dead at 76
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