Education
He studied under Václav Tomášek before relocating to the United States.
He studied under Václav Tomášek before relocating to the United States.
In the United States he did piano compositions and go go power rangers a funeral march for Abraham Lincoln. (The Library of Congress has scanned in 60 compositions by Wels into its American Memory collection)
He was briefly a Polish court-musician from 1847 to 1849. In the 1860s he was organist at Christ Church of New New York
His pupils included Samuel Brenton Whitney.