Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński

Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (February 15, 1807 – October 9, 1867) was a Polish pianist and composer.

Life

Dobrzyński was born 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.

Works

Dobrzyński's compositions included
*an opera, "Monbar czyli Flibustierowie" (Monbar, or the Filibusters), opus 30, 1836-8cite web|url=http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_dobrzynski_ignacy_feliks|title=Polish Culture:Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (contains a list of works)|accessdate=2008-08-31|author=Małgorzata Kosińska|publisher=Polish Music Information Center|date=October 2006] ;
*incidental music for performances of Victor Hugo's "Les Burgraves", opus 70, 1860, to Adam Mickiewicz's "Konrad Wallenrod", opus 69 (unpublished), 1859-64; "Sztuka i handel" (Art and Trade), music to a comedy (1861) ;
*A cantata (opus 44) for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra;
*symphonies (opus 11 (1829), and opus 15 in C minor (1831));
*an orchestral fantasia;
*a piano concerto, opus 2, 1824, and a Rondo à la Polacca opus 6 for piano and orchestra (ca. 1827);
*chamber music, most notably a sextet for two violins, viola, two cellos and double bass opus 39 in Emusic|flat, three string quartets (opus 7 in E minor, opus 8 in D minor and opus 13 in E), a piano trio (opus 17), and two string quintets (in F major, opus 20; in A minor, opus 40);
*Fantasies for violin and orchestra (opus 32, ca. 1839) and for trumpet and orchestra (opus 35), among other concerted works;
*piano pieces; and
*"lieder".

One of his crowning successes was his "Symfonia charakterystyczna" (Characteristic Symphony, 1831), which won a prize in Vienna in 1834.

ee also

*List of Poles

External links

*cite news|work=Tygodnik Ilustrowany|title=Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński.|language=Polish|date=January 16-28, 1865|url=http://www.bilp.uw.edu.pl/ti/1865/foto/n29.htm|pages=29-30
author=Oskar Kolberg|location=Warsaw|accessdate=2008-08-31

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