Artist Info: Jan Engel

Jan Engel (d. 1788) was a Polish composer, printer, and music publisher.

As Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of St John in Warsaw at the turn of 1771 and 1772 he opened a printing press on Ulica Krzywe Koło, which operated until 1776. In 1772 he published six of his own symphonies, each separately, with identical title pages, and sold them through the Warsaw booksellers M. Gröll and J.A. Poser. Copies of the first three symphonies published are preserved in the Pauline Monastery in Częstochowa [read more...]