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  1. He was so popular internationally that the music hall duo "The Two Bobs" had a hit song in 1916 in music halls across Britain with the song "When Paderewski Plays". He was a favorite of concert audiences around the globe; women especially admired his performances.

    • Who Was Paderewski?
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    Born in Kuryłówka (now Kurilivka, Ukraine), Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a virtuoso pianist, a notable composer, a remarkably successful politician and an exceptionally generous philanthropist. Although discouraged by his teachers from becoming a pianist, his brilliant artistic career was launched with his spectacular 1888 Paris debut, after which Pad...

    He was befriended and adored not only by the most prominent people of his time, but by people from all walks of life. He traveled all over the world from Africa to Australia and across the European continent; crossing the Atlantic more than thirty times. He gave more than 1500 concerts in the U.S., appearing in every state and drawing the largest c...

    He inspired artists, poets, painters and composers. The most famous portrait of him is by Sir Edward Byrne-Jones, who accidentally passed him on the street one day. He went home to explain that he had seen an archangel and started sketching from memory. A few days later Paderewski was brought into his studio whereupon the artist shouted, ” You are ...

    Paderewski’s friendships with many of the leading statesmen of Europe and America paved the way for his future political career. Beginning in 1910 he emerged as one of the best informed and best connected figures to represent Poland, a country that was at that time partitioned among her German, Austrian and Russian neighbors. The pinnacle of his po...

    Paderewski had to resume his piano career in 1923 for financial reasons, for even though he had earned more money than any artist ever did he spent most of it for his country and for mankind. As early as 1895 he created the Paderewski Fund in New York to establish triennial prizes to American composers, regardless of race or religion. Some of those...

    His presence and mastery has been recorded for posterity in 1936 when he appeared in the British motion picture, Moonlight Sonata. He was so well liked by all who came in contact with him that he was deluged with flowers from the “extras” working on the film as an expression of homage and gratitude. He was 76 years old at the time. Three years late...

    Paderewski’s presence in California has been immortalized in two places. At the turn of the century he commissioned Polish artist, Jan Styka, to paint The Crucifixion, a gigantic canvas (93 feet by 178 feet wide) which is now on display in the massive Hall of the Crucifixion at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale. Life-size portraits of Paderewski...

  2. Dec 15, 2018 · Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 17: III. Allegro molto vivace. Ignacy Jan Paderewski (18 November [O.S. 6 November] 1860 – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist and composer, politician,...

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  3. Jun 25, 2024 · Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer, and statesman, who was prime minister of Poland in 1919. Paderewski was the son of a steward of a Polish landowner. He studied music from 1872 at the Warsaw Conservatory and from 1878 taught piano there, and in 1880 he married one of his pupils,

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  4. Ignacy Jan Paderewski - 2 Piano Pieces Op. 1 (audio + sheet music) Paderewski's career had a Faustian cast. His demonically driven determination to become a concert pianist, his magical...

  5. Nov 21, 2017 · Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Violin Sonata Op. 13 (audio + sheet music) Composed in 1882, the Violin Sonata is arguably the finest of Paderewski’s earlier works.

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  7. Pianist, composer, patriot, humanitarian, and politician, Ignacy Jan Paderewski left a distinctive legacy despite his ordinary, indeed humble, origins. He had an unusually difficult youth, of which he wrote in his memoirs, “I know as well as most the despair that can beset the human heart.”

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