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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 74,563 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Józef Elsner is the 402nd most popular composer (up from 451st in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from Poland (up from 356th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Józef Elsner ranks 402 out of 1,216Before him are Adriano Banchieri, Johannes Tinctoris, Anatoly Lyadov, Bernardo Pasquini, John Koukouzelis, and Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco. After him are Terry Riley, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Wolfgang Wagner, Charles Koechlin, André Jolivet, and Johann van Beethoven.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Józef Elsner ranks 16Before him are Ivan Krylov, André-Jacques Garnerin, William Smith, Thomas Lawrence, Ivan Kotliarevsky, and Barthélemy Catherine Joubert. After him are Ernst Moritz Arndt, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Lotf Ali Khan, Aleksey Arakcheyev, and François Séverin Marceau. Among people deceased in 1854, Józef Elsner ranks 9Before him are Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Abbas I of Egypt, and Johann Peter Eckermann. After him are Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Zénaïde Bonaparte, John Martin, Marcellin Marbot, and Almeida Garrett.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Józef Elsner ranks 315 out of 1,454Before him are Gunther von Hagens (1945), Siemomysł (922), Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942), Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947), Kazimierz Deyna (1947), and Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg (1693). After him are Bolesław V the Chaste (1226), Sophie of Pomerania (1498), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Heinz Reinefarth (1903), Ernst Wilimowski (1916), and Johann Daniel Titius (1729).

Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Józef Elsner ranks 11Before him are Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), and Martin Agricola (1486). After him are Maria Szymanowska (1789), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), and Franz Waxman (1906).