Representatives include Tadeusz Baird, Henryk Górecki, Wojciech Kilar, Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Grażyna Bacewicz, and Kazimierz Serocki.
[1][2] According to Polish music scholar Adrian Thomas, Zygmunt Mycielski used the term at the Łagów conference in 1949, and it was later used at the 1956 Warsaw Autumn festival.
[3] Their common purpose was in part retrospective, reacting to socialist realism, and in part speculative.
[3] Sound mass and sonorism influenced these post-war composers.
[4] This article related to classical music is a stub.