1769 - 1854
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, Józef Elsner ranks 402 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1568 - 1634
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 396
1435 - 1511
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 397
1855 - 1914
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 398
1637 - 1710
HPI: 57.67
Rank: 399
1280 - 1360
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 400
1675 - 1742
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 401
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 402
1935 - Present
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 403
1510 - 1555
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 404
1919 - 2010
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 405
1867 - 1950
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 406
1905 - 1974
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 407
1740 - 1792
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 408
Among people born in 1769, Józef Elsner ranks 16. Before 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 9. Before 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.
1769 - 1844
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 10
1769 - 1823
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 11
1769 - 1839
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 12
1769 - 1830
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 13
1769 - 1838
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 14
1769 - 1799
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 15
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 16
1769 - 1860
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 17
1769 - 1822
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 18
1769 - 1818
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 19
1769 - 1794
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 20
1769 - 1834
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 21
1769 - 1796
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 22
1797 - 1854
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 3
1792 - 1854
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 4
1823 - 1854
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 5
1782 - 1854
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 6
1816 - 1854
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 7
1792 - 1854
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 8
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 9
1811 - 1854
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 10
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 11
1801 - 1854
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 12
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 13
1782 - 1854
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 14
1799 - 1854
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 15
Among people born in Poland, Józef Elsner ranks 315 out of 1,454. Before 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).
1945 - Present
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 309
922 - 950
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 310
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 311
1947 - 1984
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 312
1947 - 1989
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 313
1693 - 1728
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 314
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 315
1226 - 1279
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 316
1498 - 1568
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 317
1879 - 1950
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 318
1903 - 1979
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 319
1916 - 1997
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 320
1729 - 1796
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 321
Among composers born in Poland, Józef Elsner ranks 11. Before 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).
1854 - 1925
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 5
1881 - 1950
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 6
1687 - 1750
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 7
1834 - 1861
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 8
1919 - 1996
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 9
1486 - 1556
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 10
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 11
1789 - 1831
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 12
1909 - 1969
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 13
1897 - 1986
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 14
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 15
1728 - 1804
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 16
1906 - 1967
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 17