One composer from this country used two string orchestras tuned a semitone apart for his piece Emanations.
One composer from this country used two string orchestras tuned a semitone apart for his piece Emanations. Another composer from here wrote Songs of an Infatuated Muezzin, but is more famous for his Rumi-inspired third symphony subtitled "Song of the Night." A third composer from here wrote the piece Beatus Vir for a visit from the Pope and wrote a symphony that uses quotes from a Renaissance (*) astronomer. That man's third symphony sets to music a prayer written on a Gestapo jail cell. An a cappella version of the Stabat Mater appears in the St. Luke Passion, a work by a man from this country who also wrote a work scored for 52 strings that was originally titled 8'37''. The Copernican Symphony, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, and Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima are all from, for 10 points, what country, the home of Henryk Gorecki and Krzysztof Penderecki?
One composer from this country used two string orchestras tuned a semitone apart for his piece Emanations.
Republic of Poland [or Polska]