Oginski Michal Kleofas - Piano Works

Polonaises and other piano works.
01. Minuet in A minor
02. Mazurka in G
03. Mazurka in D
04. Polonaise No.1 in F (Polonaise of Death)
05. Polonaise No.2 in G
06. Polonaise No.3 in F minor
07. Polonaise No.4 in B flat
08. Polonaise No.5 in E flat
09. Polonaise No.6 in C minor (Les Adieux)
10. Polonaise No.7 in F
11. Polonaise No.8 in F minor (Polonaise Funebre)
12. Polonaise No.9 in B flat
13. Polonaise No.10 in D minor
14. Polonaise No.11 in G (For Amelia)
15. Polonaise No.12 in G
16. Polonaise No.13 in A minor (Farewell to the Fatherland)
17. Polonaise No.14 in C
18. Polonaise No.15 in G minor (Sirotinuszka)
19. Polonaise No.16 in D minor (Polonaise Pathetique)
20. Polonaise No.17 in F minor (Polonaise Serieuse)
21. Polonaise No.18 in G minor
22. Polonaise No.19 in C
23. Polonaise No.20 in F
24. Polonaise No.21 in G (on Carafa's O Cara Memoria)
25. Polonaise No.22 in E flat
26. Polonaise No.23 in B flat
27. Polonaise No.24 in E flat



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Michał Kleofas Ogiński
(b Poland Guzów, nr Warsaw, 25 Sept 1765; d Florence, 15 Oct 1833). Composer, nephew of (1) Michał Kazimierz Ogiński. He first studied the violin and piano at Guzów with Józef Kozłowski (1773–8); later he took occasional violin lessons from Viotti (1798), Baillot (1810) and others. From 1789 he held various ambassadorial and governmental positions in the Netherlands (1790), London (1791), Warsaw (as Grand Treasurer of Lithuania, 1793–4), Constantinople (1796) and elsewhere. He travelled throughout Europe, settling in 1802 at Zalesie, near Vilnius, and in 1815 in Italy.

Ogiński is chiefly noted for his piano works, particularly the polonaises, the melancholy, lyrical mood of which suited the taste of the times and expressed Polish patriotism. Many contemporary composers such as Elsner, Kurpiński and Szymanowska were influenced by his works in this form. Ogiński wrote about 20, published in many editions in Poland and abroad, the best known being Pożegnanie Ojczyzny (‘Farewell to the Fatherland’). His vocal works include an opera and many songs; a number of patriotic songs written for the Polish regiment he maintained in the early 1790s are now lost.