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

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. He was the son of Ignacy Dobrzyński, the brother of Edward Dobrzyński, and the father of Bronisław Dobrzyński.

Life

Dobrzyński was born on former Polish territory in Romanów, in

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, now Romaniv,

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, Ukraine (''Ukr''. Романів), known from 1933 to 2003 as Dzerzhynsk (''Rus''. Дзержинськ, ''Pol''. Dzierżyńsk). He attended a

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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

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with

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, at first privately, then in 1826–28 at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he was a classmate of

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. In 1835, he won second prize in a composition competition for his Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 15. This symphony was later called "Symphony in the Characteristic Spirit of Polish Music" and movements were conducted by

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. In 1845 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

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Music Society. He died in

on 9 October 1867, at the age of 60.

Works

Dobrzyński's compositions included: *an opera, ''Monbar czyli Flibustierowie'' (Monbar, or the Filibusters), Op. 30, 1836-8 *

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for performances of

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's '' Les Burgraves'', Op. 70, 1860, to

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's ''

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'', Op. 69 (unpublished), 1859–64; ''Sztuka i handel'' (Art and Trade), music to a comedy (1861) *a

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(Op. 44) for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra * symphonies (Op. 11 (1829), and Op. 15 in C minor (1831)) *an orchestral fantasia *a

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, Op. 2, 1824, and a Rondo à la Polacca, Op. 6 for piano and orchestra (ca. 1827) *

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, most notably a

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for two violins,

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, 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); Duo for Clarinet and Piano (composed in the mid-1840s), Op. 47; and two string quintets (in F major, Op. 20; in A minor, Op. 40) *Fantasies for violin and orchestra (Op. 32, ca. 1839) and for trumpet and orchestra (Op. 35), among other concerted works *piano pieces *

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

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in 1834.

References

External links

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Scores by Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński in National Digital Library of Poland (Polona)
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