Jan Gall

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Jan Karol (Johann) Gall (born August 18, 1856 in Warsaw , † October 30, 1912 in Lemberg ) was a Polish composer, choir director and music teacher.

Gall began his musical training with Zygmunt Noskowski in Warsaw and Cracow and continued it at the Vienna Conservatory with Franz Krenn and in Munich with Joseph Rheinberger . In 1882 he became choirmaster in Leipzig and met Franz Liszt in Weimar . In 1883 he traveled to Italy, where he took singing lessons from, among others, Francesco Lamperti in Milan. From 1884 he headed the Galician Music Association in Lemberg.

After a stay in Dresden and Leipzig (1888–90) he taught solo singing, music history and theory at the Kraków Conservatory from 1890 to 1895 . In 1895 he worked as a singing teacher and conductor of the choir association in Breslau. From 1896 he was the conductor of the choir association Echo-Macierz in Lemberg. As a composer, he was best known for choral and solo songs. He also composed cantatas, folk song arrangements for male choir, miniatures for piano and the operas Barkarola (1884) and Viola (fragment, 1886), which are described as "dramatic" or "comic image" . The director and theater director Iwo Gall was his son.

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SURNAME Gall, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gall, Jan Karol; Gall, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish composer, choir director and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1912
Place of death Lviv