Famous People with Name Henryk

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: (pronounced ['x?nr?k m?i'k?waj gu'r??tski]) (born December 6, 1933 in Czernica, Poland) is a Polish composer of classical music. Górecki's work in the late 1950s and 1960s was characterised by a dissonant modernism influenced by Nono, Stockhausen, and his contemporaries Penderecki and Serocki. In the mid 1970s, he moved towards a 'pure' sacred minimalist sound, encapsulated by the 1976 Symphony No

Henryk Wieniawski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Wieniawski: (July 10, 1835 Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - March 31, 1880 Moscow) was a Polish composer and violinist.

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz: May 5, 1846–November 15, 1916, Vevey, Switzerland) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."

Henryk Rodakowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Rodakowski: (1823-1894) was a Polish painter.

Henryk Stazewski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Stazewski: (1894-1988) was a Polish painter, considered to be a pioneer of the classical avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. He was a foremost representative of the Constructivist movement, as well as the co-creator of the Geometric Abstract art movement.