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OSTROVSKY (Ostrowski) Felix (3 I 1802, Krasnik, Lubelskie Voivodeship - 14 XI 1860, Warsaw) - Polish composer, pianist and teacher. From the age of 8 he performed in concerts with Spanish. own. works. In 1824 he graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in the classes of fp. (by V.V. Wurfel) and the organ. He successfully performed in various cities of USA, including Petersburg. O.'s game was distinguished by the brilliance of the "bead" technique (contemporaries called it the "diamond Felix"). He taught the game in fp. at the Warsaw Alexander Institute for the Education of Maidens, gave private lessons. He worked fruitfully as a composer. During O.'s life, his polonaises, mazurkas, rondos, and other plays for fp were popular. In polonaises, a continuous connection with M.K. Oginsky is noticeable, the searches of which received a kind of refraction in the work of O. Mn. production O., including The "Big Sonata" were lost;some of them were later found and published in the USSR (“Two Polonaises, Adagio and Rondo for Piano,” M., 1958).