Oskar Kolberg
Oskar Kolberg ( Henryk Oskar Kolberg) ( born February 22, 1814 Przysucha, † June 3, 1890 in Kraków ) was a Polish ethnographer and composer.
Life
He was the son of Julius Kolberg, one from Prussia in 1798 immigrated cartographer, professor at the Warsaw University, and Karolina Fryderyka Mercoeur, a Warsaw -born Frenchwoman. The young Oskar attended the Warsaw Lyceum, whose director Samuel Linde was, at the same time, he studied music at Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński 1832-1836.
Later, he studied music in Berlin with Christian Friedrich Johann Carl Friedrich Girschner and Rungenhagen. He wanted to be a composer, in 1853 his opera premiered " The Shepherd King".
Back in Warsaw, he gave music lessons, was an accountant and 1845-1857 official at the railway headquarters Warsaw - Vienna. He also worked as a bank clerk and a railway official. During this time he collected hundreds of folk songs from the region of Mazovia, which he published first in the form of song books. He was founder of the Polish ethnography. Thanks to a grant from the Mianowski - checkout, he published a work in five volumes on the folk music of Mazovia.
In 1871 he moved from Warsaw to Krakow at Mogilany, later to Modlnica, 1884 to Krakow on.
In 1873 he was elected a member of the Polish Academy of skill in Krakow ( Polska Akademia Umiejętności ).