Józef Elsner (1769-1854) - Te Deum (1815)

Gratulacje z okazji urodzin Józef Elsner! 🙏🏼🎁
Composer: Józef Elsner (1769-1854)
Work: Te Deum, Op.11 (1815)
Performers: Agnieszkа Tοmаszewska (soprano); Joаnna Dοbrаkοwska (alto); Kаrοl Kοzłοwski (tenor); Adаm Pаlkа (bass);
Capella Clаrοmontаna; Cаntores Minores Wrаtislаvienses; Jаrοsłаw Jаsiurа (conductor)
Drawing: Zygmunt Vogel (1764-1826) - The Army of the Duchy of Warsaw marching along Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street
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Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner
(Grodków, 1 June 1769 - Warsaw, 18 April 1854)
Polish composer and teacher of German origin. The son of a maker of musical instruments, he was destined for medicine, but became choir-boy and later violinist and singer at the Breslau theatre. He received harmony lessons from Förster in Breslau. He read scores and was intimate with musicians in Vienna, he became first violin of the Brünn theatre in 1791, and musical director of the theatre in Lemberg in 1792. In 1799 he settled in Warsaw, where he was director of German and Polish theatres ; and in 1813, with Princess Zamoiska, founded a music society, which was transformed into the "Warsaw Conservatory in 1821, when he left the theatre and became first director and professor of composition in the new institution. He retired in 1830, when political troubles closed the Conservatory, but continued composition. During a visit to Paris some of his works were performed at the Tuileries and Saint-Cloud. He is considered a precursor of the Polish national style in music, and his works combine aspects of Viennese Classical tradition with elements of Polish folk music. He made frequent use of Polish songs and dances in his operas, songs and instrumental music and of Polish religious songs in his sacred works, and transformed this material in accordance with Romantic principles; he was also interested in the metre and intonation of the Polish language. His debt to Mozart and Haydn is most apparent in his early instrumental works, though he stopped composing instrumental music relatively early in favour of vocal music and stage works, many of which were based on Polish historical sources, and which demonstrate the evolution of his musical language. His solo songs initially used Rococo and galant styles, but eventually took on Romantic characteristics, displaying heightened expressivity and exchanging strophic forms for through-composed settings. As a composer, he wrote the opera 'Osoblievi Bracia' and about 30 other small dramatic works in Polish. He also composed Masses, motets, requiems, offertories, Cantatas and many sacred songs as well as Symphonies, quartets, concertos, and much other pianoforte and instrumental music.

[@wojciechkral-kulturainatur1674]

Piękny utwór! Bravissimo!🏵 A w tle widać ulicę Krakowskie Przedmieście w Warszawie. 👋

[@mariamirabella8747]

❤🌹❤🌹❤🌹❤🌹❤ Grosses, grosses DANKE Herr Pau NG für dieses Großartiges Video!!!⚘💒☄Das ist ein GÖTTLICH Meisterwerk ...💜... Was für Göttliche Stimmen!!!🌸🍷☀️

[@marikomariko3992]

One of the best Te Deum I have ever heard. From 11:15 on, Miserere, not only the two soloists but also the supporting role of the choir are breathtaking.

[@foxvideo2233]

Dziekujemy za muzyke

[@von_winkelmann5648]

Elsner ❤

[@KatarzynaWojciechowska1]

Nice to notice that he was the teacher of Chopin ;)

[@paolobottero297]

La tessitura musicale e sintattica del coro è molto bella; peccato che i primi cinque minuti siano a livello di marcetta da banda popolare (che, purtroppo, ogni tanto riprende: brutta e senza senso). Il brano è comunque apprezzabile.

[@ivo_pawlowski]

o rok za późno xd. pozdro miodowa

[@اسعدنعيم-و8م]

🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

[@SilvioNobre]

Que benção! 💖💖