Stanisław Bursa (1865–1947) represented the 19th century type of a versatile artist, known as a singer (tenor), a conductor, a composer and a pedagogue. At the same time he made a career as a clerk (an employee of the Mutual Insurance Company in Cracow). The life of Bursa since 1914 is marked with the experience of travelling and a constant change in his place of residence. He moved around Galicia as an insurance clerk, went on educational trips, made journey to improve his health and visited his numerous family. Regular artistic trips in Galicia and the territory of the Prussian partition and Silesia, undertaken since the first decade of the 19th century provide opportunities also for additional profit. The present study focuses on the issue of mobility and its influence on the course of the artistic career not only from the perspective of internal migration but also the mobility understood as the ability to act on multifarious fields in the professional dimension.