Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807-1867)
- Concerto (As-Dur) | pour le Piano |
avec accompagnement d’Orchestre ... Oeuv: 2 (1824)
Performers: Sinfonia Vаrsovia; Howard Shеllеy (piano & conductor)
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Polish composer and pianist. Son of Ignacy Dobrzyński (1779-1841), a
musician at the court of Count Józef Iliński, he initially studied with
his father. Later he joined to the Warsaw Conservatory to study with
Józef Elsner, and where he had Frédéric Chopin as a fellow student. He
remained in Poland following the 1830 insurrection, earning his living
principally as a performer and teacher, and playing a valuable role in
the promotion of concert life in Warsaw. There were short-lived periods
of more permanent employment at the Instytut Wychowania Panień
(1841-43). During his pianistic tours in Germany (1845-47), he had great
success. By 1850 he came back to Warsaw where he assumed a post at the
Wielki Theatre (1852-53). He was dismissed from the theatre post,
apparently unable to accept the constraints imposed on his role as
director. In 1857 he founded '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. As a composer, he was mainly regarded by his opera
'Monbar or The Filibuster' (1838) but he also wrote further stage music,
a Symphonie caracteristique (1834), a Piano concerto (1824), several
orchestral and chamber music, piano pieces, sacred music and songs. He
also published the piano method 'Szkoła na fortepian' (1845). His son
Bronisław Dobrzyński (fl. 1859-1893) was a composer and pianist.
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