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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Józef
- Family name
- Elsner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Place of birth
- Grodków
- Place of death
- Warsaw
- Occupation
- music theorist
- Employer
- Chopin University of Music
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- art music
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- violin
- Image
- Józef Elsner.PNG
- Work location
- Warsaw
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- described by source
- Polish Biographical Dictionary
- place of burial
- Powązki Cemetery
- Commons category
- Józef Elsner
- date of birth
- 1769-06-01
- date of death
- 1854-04-18
- student
- Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki
- P8168
- Ciba
- name in native language
- Józef Elsner
- Commons Creator page
- Józef Elsner
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Works in European collections
18 objects attributed to Józef Elsner, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Portrait of Józef Elsner by Maksymilian Fajans, after 1853 Plaque on former Dominican refectory at Plac Dominikański 2/4, Wrocław, commemorating Elsner's connections with Wrocław.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Józef Elsner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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