Jan Gall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jan Gall

Polish composer

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1856

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 30-Oct-1912

Profession: composer, conductor, music pedagogue

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Jan Gall

  • Jan Karol Gall (August 18, 1856 – October 30, 1912) was a Polish vocal composer and music teacher. Gall was born in Warsaw, and studied under Franz Krenn in Vienna, Josef Rheinberger in Munich, and Francesco Lamperti in Milan.
  • In 1880, he became conductor of the Galician Music Society in Lemberg (modern-day Lviv, Ukraine); in 1886, professor of singing at the Kraków Conservatory; and from 1892, conductor of a choral society, "Echo", in Lwów [Lemberg]. He wrote about 400 songs, choruses, quintets, and so on, and his compositions were quite popular at the time, including a popular version of Mizerna cicha.

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