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A native of Cracow in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, he studied in Cracow and Vienna. He was a violinist then conductor in several military bands. Władysław Żeleński (1837—1921) helped him get work in the Stary Teatr (Old Theater) Cracow. From 1875 he ran his own orchestra at the fashionable spa town of Krynica, the Pearl of Polish Spas. In the winter seaon he directed various musical events in Eastern Galicia (now western Ukraine): Kołomyi, Sambor, and from 1897 Lwow. Every summer he returned to Krynica, where he died in 1915 . His compositions are in the Viennese style; he was known as the Polish Strauss, like Leopold Lewandowski (1831—1896) and Fabian Tymolski (1828-1885).
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