Michał Wielhorski

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Michał Wielhorski, a Volhynian nobleman, was an important Russian patron of music, active particularly in Moscow, according to The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924). He was the younger brother of Count Matvei Yurieyitch Wielhorski, an “excellent ‘cellist” and pupil of B. Romberg, who was the first president of the Imperial Musical Society at Petrograd from 1859, founder of the Philharmonic Society, and a donor of his library to the Conservatory, as noted in The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924) and A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900, 1905).

Michał Wielhorski’s influence extended to the career of Anton Rubinstein, who, in 1854, undertook a journey to make himself and his works better known abroad, acting “on the advice and with the assistance of Count Wielhorski and the Grand Duchess” (Rubinstein entry, A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1900, 1905; Dictionary of Music, 1896, 1908; Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, Vol. 3, 1890). Additionally, the celebrated Russian pianist Annette Essipoff was a pupil of Wielhorski and Leschetizky at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, making her debut in 1874 (A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1900, 1905; Dictionary of Music, 1896, 1908; The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1924). C. J. Wielhorski is also listed among Polish composers whose songs from the early 19th century exhibit national characteristics, though these composers are “hardly known beyond their native country” (Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (American Supplement), 1922; Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), Vol. 4, 1908).