Ave Maria
Composer: Josef Elsner (1769-1854), s.a.
Józef Antoni Franciszek (sometimes Józef Ksawery Elsner, baptismal
name Joseph Anton Franz Elsner)
| Recording: not available |
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play/stop MP3 sample:
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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this time. |
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| Internet
references, biography information. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Anton_Franz_Elsner |
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| 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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