[1] He was a representative of late classicism and a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning (Polish: Towarzystwo Warszawskie Przyjaciół Nauk, TWPN).

At the age of 12, he became an organist at a church in Sarnowa, Konin County, near Rawicz, where his uncle Karol Wański was a parish priest.

He became Kapellmeister of the Polish royal chapel in 1819 and the same year received a lifetime achievement award for his services to music.

[3] In 1829, together with Józef Elsner he was ordered by the authorities to write music for the coronation of Nicolas I of Russia for King of Poland.

He helped to lay the foundations of a national style and prepared the ground for Polish music of the Romantic period, particularly Chopin.