Rafał Augustyn (composer)

[4] As a music writer and critic, he has written for such journals and periodicals as Ruch Muzyczny and Odra.

In 1984–94, together with Marek Pijarowski, he was director of the "Musica Polonica Nova" Festival of Polish Contemporary Music in Wrocław.

In 1980–98 he was a member of the Repertoire Committee of the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music.

Along with Andrzej Krzanowski and Eugeniusz Knapik, Augustyn is sometimes included as a member of the so-called "Silesian School"; that is, a group of composers who studied under Górecki in Katowice, Silesia, and are noted for their break with the current dominant postmodernist approach to classical music in Poland.

[5] One of his major pieces, his "Symphony of Hymns", took 20 years to complete, typically lasts for 100 minutes and requires an orchestra of over 170 players.