Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (15 February 1807 – 9 October 1867) was a Polish pianist and composer.
Life
Dobrzyński was born in Romanów, in Volhynia, now Romaniv ukr. Романів, between the 1933-2003 it was known as Дзержинськ – Dzerżynśk)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 founded "Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński's Polish Orchestra" (Orkiestra Polska Ignacego Feliksa Dobrzyńskiego), which comprised leading members of the orchestra of Warsaw's Grand Theatre. 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), Op. 30, 1836-8[1]
- incidental music for performances of Victor Hugo's Les Burgraves, Op. 70, 1860,[1] to Adam Mickiewicz's Konrad Wallenrod, Op. 69 (unpublished), 1859–64; Sztuka i handel (Art and Trade), music to a comedy (1861) [1]
- a cantata (Op. 44) for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra[1]
- symphonies (Op. 11 (1829), and Op. 15 in C minor (1831))[1]
- an orchestral fantasia
- a piano concerto, Op. 2, 1824, and a Rondo à la Polacca, Op. 6 for piano and orchestra (ca. 1827)[1]
- chamber music, most notably a sextet for two violins, viola, two cellos and double bass in E♭, Op. 39; three string quartets (Op. 7 in E minor, Op. 8 in D minor and Op. 13 in E), a piano trio (Op. 17), and two string quintets (in F major, Op. 20; in A minor, Op. 40)[1]
- Fantasies for violin and orchestra (Op. 32, ca. 1839) and for trumpet and orchestra (Op. 35), among other concerted works[1]
- piano pieces
- lieder.
One of his crowning successes was his Symfonia charakterystyczna (Characteristic Symphony, 1831), which won a prize in Vienna in 1834.
See also
External links
- Oskar Kolberg (January 16–28, 1865). "Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński". Tygodnik Ilustrowany (in Polish). Warsaw. pp. 29–30. Retrieved 2008-08-31.
- Free scores by Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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