Added by | Radu Andron |
General Description : | Karol Kazimierz Kurpiński (March 6, 1785) – (September 18, 1857, Warsaw) was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. Karol began his studies under his father, Marcin Kurpiński, an organist. At the age of 12, he became organist at a church in Sarnowa near Rawicz, where his uncle Karol Wański was a parish priest. In 1800 his other uncle, the cellist Roch Wański, took him to the estate of count Feliks Polanowski near Lviv, who had a private orchestra of which Wański was a member, and in which the young Kurpiński played violin. |
Material | Gold |
Face value | 5 zl |
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