7. Szymanowski

The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) bore many affinities to Skriabin in his extension (but not renunciation) of tonality. His Symphony No. 3 (1916) is also interesting because it takes much of its inspiration, not from folk sources, but from thirteenth-century mystical Persian poetry. As you can hear in the first movement, it is more a cantata for tenor, chorus, and large orchestra. 


The Stabat Mater, op. 53 (1926) is also of interest as an example of national and modernist sentiment at work in the same composition, from which the second part is excerpted here.