Lutoslawski supported himself by writing for the Polish radio, and he composed a large number of songs for children as well as incidental music for radio dramas. During his long musical career, Lutoslawski's work evolved slowly but steadily. Funeral Music for string orchestra, written in 1958 in memory of BARTÓK, was the first work to exploit the harmonic system in which he uses 12-tone serialism combined with particularly significant chords to give the piece internal coherence.
A major turning point...