Anton Pann
Wallachian composer & musicologist · Turkey · On the map · Musicians · Lived 1796 to 1854 · aged 58
Anton Pann was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher. Pann was an influential folklorist and collector of proverbs, as well as a lexicographer and textbook author.
Anton Pann is read about 25 times a day, in 17 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 20 September 2026
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Lăutari in mid-19th-century Bucharest, as drawn by Carol Popp de Szathmary
Title page of "The Theoretical and Practical Basis of Church music or the Melodic Grammar", Bucharest, 1845. Copy in the library of Stavropoleos Monastery.
The 1847 fire in Bucharest
Cover of Noul Erotocrit, published in Romanian Cyrillic (Sibiu, 1837)
The Anton Pann Memorial House in Râmnicu Vâlcea
Anton Pann's portrait on a Romanian postage stamp (1955)About this person
Country
Turkey
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1796 to 1854 · aged 58
