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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Józef Elsner has received more than 80,122 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Józef Elsner is the 426th most popular composer (down from 402nd in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from Poland (down from 315th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Józef Elsner ranks 426 out of 1,451. Before him are Giuseppe Sammartini, James Newton Howard, Ferdinand Ries, Étienne Méhul, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, and Nikolai Medtner. After him are Ernest Ansermet, Raimonds Pauls, Johannes Tinctoris, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Hans Werner Henze, and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Józef Elsner ranks 15. Before him are Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ivan Krylov, André-Jacques Garnerin, Thomas Lawrence, Ivan Kotliarevsky, and William Smith. After him are Ernst Moritz Arndt, Lotf Ali Khan, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha. Among people deceased in 1854, Józef Elsner ranks 10. Before him are Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Abbas I of Egypt, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, and Karl Adolph von Basedow. After him are Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Zénaïde Bonaparte, Fructuoso Rivera, John Martin, Kamehameha III, and Almeida Garrett.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Józef Elsner ranks 358 out of 1,694. Before him are Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Alfred Korzybski (1879), and Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (1457). After him are Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Roman Ingarden (1893), Avraham Stern (1907), and Andreas Gryphius (1616).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Józef Elsner ranks 13. Before him are Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), and Maria Szymanowska (1789). After him are Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), and Franz Waxman (1906).

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