Jan Karol Gall was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 vocal composer and music teacher.

Gall was born in Warsaw

Warsaw

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, and studied under Franz Krenn

Franz Krenn

Franz Krenn was an Austrian composer and composition teacher.Born in Droß, Krenn studied under Ignaz von Seyfried in Vienna. He served as organist in a number of Viennese churches and in 1862 became Kapellmeister of the Vienna Hofkirche...

 in Vienna

Vienna

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, Josef Rheinberger

Josef Rheinberger

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a German organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein.-Short biography:...

 in Munich

Munich

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, and Francesco Lamperti

Francesco Lamperti

Francesco Lamperti was an Italian singing teacher.A native of Savona, Lamperti attended the Milan Conservatory where, beginning in 1850, he taught for a quarter of a century. He was director at the Teatro Filodrammatico in Lodi. In 1875 he left the school and began to teach as a private tutor...

 in Milan

Milan

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. In 1880, he became conductor of the Galician Music Society

Lviv Conservatory

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 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 Lemberg.

He wrote about 400 songs, choruses, quintets, and so on, and his compositions were quite popular at the time.