Michał Kleofas Ogiński (25 September 1765 – 15 October 1833)[2] was a Polish diplomat and politician, Grand Treasurer of Lithuania, and a senator of Tsar Alexander I.

[10] His father, Andrzej, was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman from the Ogiński family and Trakai governor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

[citation needed] His first introduction to music arose during a visit to relatives at Słonim where Michał Kazimierz Ogiński had a contemporary European theatre that hosted opera and ballet productions.

He studied music with Józef Kozłowski and took violin lessons from Giovanni Battista Viotti, Pierre Baillot, and Ivan Mane Jarnović.

[13] Michał Kleofas had an older sister, Józefa, and half-brothers, his mother's sons from previous marriages: Feliks Łubieński and Antoni Protazy Potocki.

[16] As a composer, he is best known for his polonaise Farewell to My Homeland (Pożegnanie Ojczyzny), written in 1794 in the Zalesie region (then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, today in Belarus), on the occasion of his emigration after the suppression of the Kościuszko Uprising.

[8][21][24] This piece, with its unreservedly melancholic melodies and fantasia-like passages, can be considered among the earliest examples of Polish romantic music before Chopin.