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Henryk Górecki, an Uncommon card
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 44,000
Power 162 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Henryk Górecki quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Henryk Górecki card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He became a ______ figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw.
Answer
leading. He became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. From the Henryk Górecki article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Consonance and dissonance. Consonance and dissonance 63,000 · Henryk Górecki 44,000 · Kenzō Tange 35,000 · Carl Djerassi 23,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki.
- He became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw.
- His Anton Webern-influenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and influenced by Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Henryk Górecki article was read about 44,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Henryk Górecki
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Henryk Górecki (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lech Kowalski & Włodzimierz Pniewski, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
