Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński
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Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807–67) was a Polish pianist and composer.
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[edit] Life
Dobrzyński was born on February 15, 1807, in Romanów, in Volhynia, now Dserschynsk, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.
He attended a Jesuit school in Romanów, then continued his education at Vinnitsa, where he graduated from the Gimnazjum Podolskie (Podole Gymnasium).
He first studied music with his father Ignacy, a violinist, composer and music director. Beginning in 1825 he studied in Warsaw with Józef Elsner, at first privately, then in 1826–28 at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he was a classmate of Frédéric Chopin's.
Dobrzyński toured Germany as a soloist and also conducted operas and concerts.
In 1857 he organized "Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński's Polish Orchestra" (Orkiestra Polska Ignacego Feliksa Dobrzyńskiego), which comprised leading members of the orchestra of Warsaw's Great Theater. In 1858–60 he participated in a committee established to found a Music Institute. He also became a member of the Lwów Music Society.
He died in Warsaw on October 9, 1867.
[edit] Works
Dobrzyński's compositions included
- an opera, Monbar czyli Flibustierowie (Monbar, or the Filibusters), 1863;
- incidental music for performances of Victor Hugo's Les Burgraves, 1860, and of Adam Mickiewicz's Konrad Wallenrod, 1859-65;
- symphonies;
- an orchestral fantasia;
- a piano concerto, 1824;
- chamber music, most notably a sextet for two violins, viola, two cellos and double bass;
- piano pieces; and
- lieder.
One of his crowning successes was his Symfonia charakterystyczna (Characteristic Symphony), which won a prize in Vienna in 1834.
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[edit] External links
- Tygodnik Ilustrowany, 1865 [1]: article about Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński
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