Seweryn Berson
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Seweryn Berson (1858-1917) was a Polish lawyer and composer. Born in Nowy Sącz, early in his youth he moved to Lwów (then in Galicia, currently in Ukraine), where he spent most of his life. A student of Berlin-based conservatory of Heinrich Urban, he composed numerous operettas (Lekcja tańców - Dance lesson; 1902), serenades, romances and bagatellas, as well as numerous songs to the lyrics by Heinrich Heine, Henrik Ibsen and Maria Konopnicka. He died March 4, 1917 in Lwów and was buried there.
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- (Polish) "BERSON Seweryn". Encyklopedia muzyki PWN. (2004). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.
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