List of compositions by Henryk Górecki

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (/ɡəˈrɛtski/ gə-RET-skee, Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk miˈkɔwaj ɡuˈrɛt͡skʲi];[1] 6 December 1933 – 12 November 2010)[2][3] was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music.

Much of Górecki's work has been published by Boosey & Hawkes,[4][better source needed] which holds the rights for most of the world except in "countries of the former socialist copyright federation,"[clarification needed] where Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne holds the rights.

[5] Górecki's unpublished works prior to 1956 include: Legenda for orchestra, five mazurkas for piano, a prelude for violin and piano, ten preludes for piano, two songs ("Przez te łąki.

number 9a to a suite for piano titled "Z ptasiego gniazda" ("From the Bird's Nest") which Górecki wrote November 1956.

[7] Earlier that year, Górecki set to music a translation to Polish of one of Federico García Lorca's poems by Mikołaj Bieszczadowski, but Górecki revised it in 1980 and it was published with another translated Lorca poem as the two songs of Op.