Konstanty Gorski 12 Mélodies pour ténor et piano Kobylinski Biegas - AP0589

Konstanty Gorski was a Polish composer, violinist, organist and music teacher. Gorski began his education in Grodno and continued at the First Philological Gymnasium in Wilno. He obtained his musical education at the Musical Institute in Warsaw and St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1881 he completed his violin studies with Leopold Auer and then spent the next year studying composition and instrumentation with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In 1890 he arrived in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, where he remained for 29 years. During this very active period of his life, he taught at the Kharkov Music Secondary School, co-founded the “Dom Polski” Cultural Society, and was conductor of the Kharkov Symphonic Orchestra and also the Polish and Church Choir, both which he founded. He also remained a very popular violinist, valued by fellow composers, whose works he performed. The changing political environment in the Russian Empire, particularly the October Revolution in 1917, greatly affected Gorski. With the approaching civil war he had no possibility of continuing his work in Kharkov and returned to newly independent Poland with his family. He first he settled in Warsaw, and then moved to Poznan, where he became concertmaster of the Teatr Wielki Opera orchestra, a post he held until his death. His opera Margier was performed there in 1927. He died on 31 May 1924 in Poznan.