His first work was nothing less than a full-scale symphony - the first by a modern Russian composer ... position adopted by many composers of the post-war avant-garde. And yet he loathed modernist ...

His most famous, though, comes from one of the best Westerns of all time, The Magnificent Seven from 1960. MGM Hans Zimmer is one of the all-time great film composers and there are a number of his ...

The inauguration of the 'Warsaw Autumn' festival of contemporary music in October 1956 also played a significant role in the establishment of the 'Polish composers' school'. The stage of the 'Warsaw ...