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Józef Elsner

1769 - 1854

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Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner (sometimes Józef Ksawery Elsner; baptismal name, Joseph Anton Franz Elsner; 1 June 1769 – 18 April 1854) was a Polish composer, music teacher, and music theoretician, active mainly in Warsaw. He was one of the first composers in Poland to weave elements of folk music into his works. Elsner composed many symphonic, chamber, solo, and vocal-instrumental works, and works for the stage, including over 100 religious works (masses, offertories, oratorios, cantatas), eight symphonies, three concertos, three ballets, and thirty-eight operas. He is perhaps best known as the principal composition teacher of the young composer Frédéric Chopin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Józef Elsner is the 402nd most popular composer (up from 426th in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from Poland (up from 358th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Józef Elsner ranks 402 out of 1,451. Before him are Viktor Ullmann, Mauricio Kagel, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Carl Heinrich Graun, Charles Auguste de Bériot, and Ernst Krenek. After him are Eugen Doga, Karl Goldmark, Peter Cornelius, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, and Alexander Dargomyzhsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Józef Elsner ranks 13. Before him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Jean Lannes, Ivan Krylov, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, André-Jacques Garnerin, and Ivan Kotliarevsky. After him are William Smith, Thomas Lawrence, Mahmud Shah Durrani, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, and Aleksey Arakcheyev. Among people deceased in 1854, Józef Elsner ranks 9. Before him are Abbas I of Egypt, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Peter Eckermann, and Charles III, Duke of Parma. After him are Zénaïde Bonaparte, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Fructuoso Rivera, Nathaniel Wallich, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, and Almeida Garrett.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Józef Elsner ranks 324 out of 1,694. Before him are Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Zvi Zamir (1925), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Casimir II the Just (1138), Stefan Czarniecki (1599), and Artur Schnabel (1882). After him are Kazimierz Deyna (1947), Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (1846), Konstanty Kalinowski (1838), Vitello (1230), Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (1116), and Kurt Tank (1898).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Józef Elsner ranks 13. Before him are Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), and Viktor Ullmann (1898). After him are Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Johann Schobert (1720), Franz Waxman (1906), and Wolfgang Schmieder (1901).

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