Maciej Wodziński

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Maciej Wodziński

Dresden | Germany

First name:

Maciej

Last Name:

Wodziński

Parents:

Antoni Wodziński i Klasylda Orsetti

Crest:

Jastrzębiec

Date of birth:

23-02-1782

Place of birth:

Gołębiewo

Date of death:

16-07-1848

Place od death:

Drezno

Age:

Profession:

governor, MP, senator

Honours and awards:

Order Orła Białego, Order Virtuti Militari, Order Świętego Stanisława I klasy (1825), Legia Honorowa

Biography:

Maciej Wodziński (coat-of-arms Jastrzębiec) (1782-1848), born in Gołębiów, senator-castellan and senator-voivode of the Kingdom of Poland, participant in the Napoleonic campaigns. After the fall of the November Rising, he lived in Dresden from 1831. His niece was the painter Maria Wodzińska, who met Fryderyk Chopin in Dresden in 1835 (the 'poet of the piano' proposed a year later). In the end, Wodzińska's family did not agree to the wedding, due to the musician's deteriorating health. Chopin wrote for his would-be wife a Waltz in A flat major, later called 'Farewell' (Waltz 'Les adieux'). Wodzińska, in turn, painted a portrait regarded as one of the most faithful likenesses of the musician (watercolour, 1836, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie). The meeting of these two probably took place 'thanks to' a visit to Maria and her family (after a prolonged stay in Geneva) by her uncle, Maciej Wodziński, who was just living in Dresden