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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDbfBrjMehQ

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https://www.cinnamon.video/watch?v=262289793721828370

This was my first contribution to Open Mic contest (run on Steem) and my first video ever uploaded to somewhere.

I played quite famous “Oginski's Polonaise”.

It was written by Polish composer Michal Kleofas Oginski (1765 – 1833) in 1794.

Polonaise is

a slow dance of Polish origin in triple time, consisting chiefly of an intricate march or procession

[Oxford Dictionary of English, 3rd Edition, Oxford University Press 2010]

As a genre it’s known beginning from the XVIIth century.

They believe that Oginski wrote it while leaving Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, that’s why it’s also known as “Farewell to Homeland”.

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