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.
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)