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Ave Maria  

Composer: Josef Elsner (1769-1854), s.a.
Józef Antoni Franciszek (sometimes Józef Ksawery Elsner, baptismal name Joseph Anton Franz Elsner)


 

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(Poland)

 

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CD:
  Jasnogórska Muzyka Dawna:
Musica Claromontana, Vol. 21

tr01. Ave Maria for chorus & organ in B flat major

MIDI / Lyrics:  not available
Score:  not available
My thanks and appreciation to
Robert Lee
for sending me this information.

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Internet references, biography information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Anton_Franz_Elsner
http://www.myspace.com/jozefelsner
Jozef Antoni Franciszek Elsner - composer, conductor and pedagogue, born 1 June 1769 in Grodkow in Opole region, died 18 April 1854 in Elsnerowo near Warsaw. In 1774-81 he attended the Grodkow elementary school as well as sang in the church choir. From 1781 he went to a school run by the Dominican convent and later attended the Jesuit St Maciej Gymnasium in Wroclaw. He sang in the monastery's choir and learnt the violin and basso continuo. His motet AVE MARIA GRATIAE PLENA for two solo voices accompanied by instruments was performed in St Wojciech's Church in Wroclaw in 1782. In 1786 Elsner enrolled at the theological faculty of Wroclaw University, but soon abandoned it for medical studies. In the autumn of 1789 he left for Vienna with the intention of continuing medical studies, but two years later, badly ill, returned to the musical profession. In the autumn of 1791 he moved to Brno to become a violinist in the local theatre orchestra, and in the spring of the following year left for Lvov, where he was appointed conductor in the imperial royal theatre, a tenure which he held until 1795. By then he had staged his two operas composed to German librettos, DIE SELTENEN BRÜDER and DER VERKLEIDETE SULTAN. When Wojciech Boguslawski was charged with theatre management, Elsner became his partner, an occupation that he pursued alongside giving private lessons and organizing the Academy of Music, an institution that was to bring together musicians and music lovers and to run concerts. Indeed, the concerts were held every week, their programmes featuring concertos for solo instruments, vocal music as well as symphonies by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pavel Vranicky and Elsner himself. In the summer of 1799 Elsner moved from Lvov to Warsaw to settle there permanently. From 1799 to 1824 he headed the opera of the National Theatre, enriching its repertoire with his thirty operas and two ballets. In 1802-6 he owned a music printing shop which from 1803 to 1805 regularly published collections of works under the title of WYBOR PIEKNYCH DZIEL MUZYCZNYCH I PIESNI POLSKICH / A SELECTION OF BEAUTIFUL WORKS OF MUSIC AND POLISH SONGS. A total of 24 booklets came out. In 1805 Elsner embarked upon an artistic journey to Germany and France. He established contact with musicians and publishing companies in France, Germany and Austria, and this made it possible for several of his works to get published in Leipzig and Paris. The same year he joined the Warsaw Society of Friends of Sciences. In 1805-6 he was involved with the Chamber of Music, helping to organise symphonic concerts. In 1802-25 he contributed reviews and articles to Polish magazines, and in 1811-19 to the Leipzig-based "Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung", writing mostly about contemporary Polish composers and Warsaw's music developments. In 1814 he founded the Religious and National Music Society, its task being the organization of concerts and education of teachers of music, organists, singers and musicians. Meanwhile Elsner pursued pedagogical activities, teaching at Boguslawski's School of Drama in 1814-17 and lecturing on theory and composition in the schools which he managed: The Elementary School of Music and Dramatic Arts in 1817-21, The Institute of Music and Reciting in 1821-6 and The Main School of Music in 1826-31. The latter was the place where he educated a number of Polish composers, including Frederic Chopin, whose school certificate bore the following comment by Elsner: "a particular aptitude, a musical genius". From 1835 to 1839 Elsner also taught at the Teatr Wielki's School of Singing and, subsequently, at the Institute for Governesses. Elsner was an honorary member of numerous musical societies at home, including The Cracow Society of Friends of Music, as well as of the Musikverein der Universitätskirche St. Pauli in Leipzig. A mason, he was made member of the highest chapter in 1820 and a master of the cathedra in 1821. His accomplishments in the field of music were recognized with the St Stanislaw's Order in 1823. Three medals were minted in his honour. ..

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