Izabella Zielińska

 Izabella Jadwiga Zielińska (née Ostaszewska; 10 December 1910 – 20 November 2017) was a Polish pianist and pedagogue with one of the longest artistic biographies in Poland, starting back in 1935. 

Izabella Zielińska

 

Izabella Zielińska
Background information
Birth name	Izabella Jadwiga Ostaszewska
Born	December 10, 1910 Klimkówka, Austria-Hungary (present-day Klimkówka, Republic of Poland)
Died	November 20, 2017 (aged 106)
Genres	Classical Music
Occupation(s)	Pianist
Instruments	Piano

Life

Izabella Jadwiga Ostaszewska was born in Klimkówka, Podkarpackie Voivodeship and attended primary school in Sanok and at the Lyceum of the Ursuline Convent in Lvov, graduating in 1929. She took piano lessons from Klaudia Rylska. In 1930 she went to Belgium to continue her education in the Ursulines Institute at Wavre-Notre-Dame, where she studied French and music.

In 1931 she passed her music examination with a gold medal before the panel of the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She returned to Lvov for further piano study with Professor Bronisław Poźniak, and followed him when he moved to the city of Breslau. From 1935 onwards she performed in public under the name Iza Ostoia. Her concerts included compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Szymanowski, Paderewski. Having completed her studies with Poźniak in Breslau in the summer of 1939, she had returned home to Klimklówka in Poland just weeks before the German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the War in 1939.

In 1942 she married Bogdan Zieliński and moved to Kościan, on the Polish territories incorporated directly to the Nazi Germany, in 1939. There the Nazis enforced a clampdown on all Polish culture. Zielińska was forbidden from pursuing music and was forced into physical labour. Despite her ban, she had managed to teach some music in secret. After the War she resumed her concert career giving piano recitals and continued as a piano teacher. With five children to bring up, however, her concert career effectively had to take a back seat. She concentrated on her teaching, in which she became increasingly involved. She was a descendant of the Polish composer Michał Kleofas Ogiński and mother-in-law of the contemporary composer Lidia Zielińska.^[1] In 2016 she celebrated her 106th birthday.^[2] Zielińska died on 20 November 2017, three weeks before her 107th birthday.^[3]

Awards

• Gold Cross of Merit
• Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis

References

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• "Izabella Jadwiga "Iza Ostoia" Ostaszewska z Ostaszewa h. Ostoja (M.J. Minakowski, Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego)".
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• Ludowicz, Bogdan (13 December 2016). "106 urodziny Izabelli Zielińskiej" (in Polish). Kościan.net. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
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3. "W wieku 107 lat odeszła Izabella Zielińska". Kościan Nasze Miasto. November 24, 2017.

Sources

• Załuski, Iwo (2010). The Ogiński Gene. Gomer Press: Zaluski Researches. ISBN 978-0-9566599-0-3. pp. 272, 297-304, 312-13, 327
• Kwilecki, Andrzej (2007). Silva rerum. Ludzie – instytucje – wydarzenia. Zapiski i wspomnienia. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie. ISBN 9788371774669.
• Leksykon polskich muzyków pedagogów urodzonych po 31 grudnia 1870 roku. Ed. Katarzyna Janczewska-Sołomko. Kraków: Oficyna Wydawnicza Impuls. 2008. ISBN 9788373085381.

External links

• "Poland's National Digital Archives". Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2017.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izabella_Zieli%C5%84ska

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