One composer from this country wrote the Rebirth symphony before being killed by an avalanche.
One composer from this country wrote the Rebirth symphony before being killed by an avalanche. This non-German country was the home of a pianist who wrote a famous Minuet in G and also served as its Prime Minister. One work from this country calls for 52 strings to bow on the wrong side of the bridge to depict an (*) atomic bombing, and was titled Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. A native son of this country commemorated its November Uprising in his "Revolutionary" etude and wrote the Minute Waltz. For 10 points, name this home country of Krzysztof Penderecki ["kuh-zhish-tof pen-der-ET-skee"] and Frederic Chopin.
One composer from this country wrote the Rebirth symphony before being killed by an avalanche.
Republic of Poland (or Rzeczpospolita Polska; the first sentence references Miecysław Karłowicz, while the second references Ignacy Jan Paderewski)