Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
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Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, also translated as Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima is a musical composition for 52 string instruments composed in 1960 by Krzysztof Penderecki. Dedicated to the residents of Hiroshima killed and injured by the first-ever wartime usage of an atomic weapon, the composition won the Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs UNESCO prize in 1961.
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