I'm listening to Witold Lutosławski 's Symphony #3, and it's amazing ( spotify ). It's kind of jerky jerky, surprise loud, sort of impressionistic moment. Normally I don't think I would like this type of music, but somehow this seems significant. There was a post where Ok-Guitar9067 on Reddit had a list of works that made them cry. That's how I stumbled upon this symphony. So I want to know more about him. Witold Lutoslawski was born in Warsaw in 1913, and died there in 1994 at the age of 81. Oh, I want to listen to Concerto for Orchestra (1954) I'm making a playlist . During World War II, after narrowly escaping German capture, Lutosławski made a living playing the piano in Warsaw bars. After the war, Stalinist authorities banned his First Symphony for being "formalist": accessible only to an elite. Links: Collection of photographs of Witold Lutoslawski.