The Zielińskis

Concert pianist and teacher Izabela Ostaszewska, born at Klimkówka in 1910, was Michał Kleofas Ogiński’s great-great-grand-daughter. In 1942, she married Bogdan Zieliński. They had 5 children:

• Bronisława Lesińska (1944-93), was a pianist and accordeonist, was trained at the Kościan Music Lyceum.
• Architect Mieczysław ((b 1945) was a talented amateur artist.
• Cellist Zygmunt (b 1947) married composer Lidia Rydlewicz (see Zygmunt Zieliński, Lidia Zielińska)
• Bożena Kościańska (b 1948) worked in the tourist business.
• Tadeusz (b 1949) trained as a trumpeter at the Kościan Music Lyceum, and the Poznań Academy of Music.