Michał Kleofas Ogiński

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Michał Kleofas Ogiński (painting by François-Xavier Fabre )

Michał Kleofas Ogiński (German: Michael Kleophas Oginski ; Lithuanian: Mykolas Kleopas Oginskis ; born September 25, 1765 in Guzów , Żyrardów district ; † October 15, 1833 in Florence ) was a Polish diplomat, politician and composer. He was Count von Ogiński and nephew of Michał Kazimierz Ogiński .

Life

Ogiński was a Polish Member of the Reichstag and Envoy Extraordinary to the Netherlands . In 1793 he became Grand Treasurer , but resigned as early as 1794 in the uprising led by Kościuszko to become chief of a regiment of hunters equipped at his own expense. After the unfortunate outcome of the battle, Ogiński fled, but returned to his Zalesie estate near Vilna in 1802 with the permission of Emperor Alexander I. After the Peace of Tilsit he moved with his family to France and Italy, returned to Poland in 1810 as senator of the Russian Empire and privy councilor, but returned to Italy in 1815.

Works

Ogiński was a violinist , but also played the clavichord and balalaika . Around 1790 he began composing marches and national chants that became popular among the rebels of 1794. He wrote a good 20 polonaise , plus other piano pieces such as mazurkas, marches, romances and waltzes. He loved French and Italian opera.

His most famous work is the Polonaise Pożegnanie Ojczyzny (“Farewell to the Fatherland”), written in 1794 during the Kościuszko uprising when he left Poland-Lithuania . Due to its devoted melancholy melodies and freely fantasizing passages, it is one of the earliest pieces of Romanticism .

His Mémoires sur la Pologne et les Polonais depuis 1788–1815 (Paris 1826, 2 vol .; German, Bellevue 1845) contain interesting information about the period between 1794 and 1798.

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Ogiński coat of arms

Grew up in a rich aristocratic family

All land holdings and property in the former Poland-Lithuania have been confiscated by the Russian Empire and Prussia because of its participation in the uprising.

  • 1802 Belarusian Zalesie. Ogiński got all the confiscated owners back.

He married there and his wife became Marija Nagurskaja.

  • 1810 Russia , St. Petersburg, Ogiński was appointed senator and privy councilor by the emperor .
  • 1815 divorce.
  • 1817 Ogiński resigned as a senator.
  • 1822 gout disease.
  • 1823 Florence . Music and composition.
  • 1831 music book with more than 60 works
  • 1833 Michał Kleofas Ogiński succumbed to his illness. Burial in Santa Croce Church in Florence , Italy

literature

  • Oginski . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 12, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 341.
  • Время и музыка Михаила Клеофаса Огинского. - The Times and Music of Michal Kleofas Oginski , ISBN 985-6089-39-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Oginski, Michael Kleophas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ogiński, Michał Kleofas; Oginskis, Mykolas Cleopas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish diplomat, politician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Guzów , Żyrardów district
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1833
Place of death Florence