Seweryn Berson
Seweryn Berson was a Polish lawyer and composer. Born in Nowy Sącz, early in his youth he moved to Lwów, where he spent most of his life. A student of Berlin-based conservatory of Heinrich Urban, he composed numerous operettas, 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.
