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Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer, philanthropist, and statesman. As a politician and diplomat, Paderewski was vital to securing international recognition of the newly formed Second Polish Republic in 1919. A musical virtuoso, he rose to prominence as a musician and composer in the late 1880s and toured widely in Europe and the United States. He wrote orchestral, instrumental, a…
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politics · Polish pianist, composer, intellectual and statesman (1860–1941) · politician · pianist · classical composer · diplomat · musicologist · music educator · composer · head of government · foreign minister · also Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ignacy Paderewski, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Paderewski
Born 18 November 1860 · Died 29 June 1941 · Q191957
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
poznan.naszemiasto: Ignacy Jan Paderewski w Poznaniu
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Moviefone: Ignacy Jan Paderewski Zarys biografii - Where to Watch
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2024· 5 entries
Onet: Ignacy Jan Paderewski po raz 30. na Dworcu Letnim w Poznaniu
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PolskieRadio: Ignacy Jan Paderewski - kompozytor, działacz niepodległościowy, mąż stanu i wielki patriota
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Released album “Souvenir de Posen”.
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Released album “Hekel Tavares: Concerto pour piano et orchestre “em formas brasileiras” n° 2, op. 105 / Heitor Villa-Lobos: Concerto pour piano et orchestre n° 5, W 521 / Ignacy Paderewski: Fantaisie polonaise sur des thèmes originaux, op. 19”.
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Snopes rated the claim “Viral posts retell a true story about the encounters between former U.S. President Herbert Hoover and Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski.” Unproven.
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist”.
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Night Music”.
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “Violin Sonatas”.
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Released album “The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 83: Gablenz: Piano Concerto in D-flat, op. 25 / Paderewski: Polish Fantasy, op. 19”.
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2020· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: 8c Ignacy Jan Paderewski single
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2019· 4 entries
Released album “Paderewski / Chopin”.
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Released album “Polonia”.
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Released album “Paderewski: Muzyka Mojego Domu”.
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Released album “Paderewski: Variations et fugue; Nokturn B-dur / Godowski: Künstlerleben”.
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2018· 2 entries
Niezalezna: Ignacy Jan Paderewski - perła amerykańskiej Polonii - powraca do Carnegie Hall
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Released album “A Century of Polish Piano Miniatures”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Polish Music For Piano And Orchestra”.
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Piano concerto and Fantaisie polonaise”.
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2015· 1 entry
By an archivist at the Hoover Institution and published
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2014· 2 entries
Niezalezna: Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Kim był książę polskiej niepodległości?
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Released album “Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Percussion; Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Tabla; Sonata for Violin and Piano”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Orchestral Works”.
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Ignace Jan Paderewski Plays Paderewski, Chopin & Liszt”.
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Released album “A Selection of His US Victor Recordings 1914-1941”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Piano Sonata, op. 21 / Variations & Fugues, opp. 11 & 23”.
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Released album “Masters of the Roll: Rare Original Recordings From the Reproducing Piano by the Great Masters of Classical Piano 1904 - 1935: A 32 CD Catalogue, Disc 4”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Violin and Piano Works”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Stephen Hough's New Piano Album”.
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Released album “Piano Concerto / Polish Fantasy / Overture”.
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Released album “Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Volume 74: Ignacy Jan Paderewski”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Symphony in B minor (Polonia)”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “The Grand Piano Era”.
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Released album “Scharwenka: Piano Concerto no. 1 / Paderewski: Piano Concerto / Glinka ~ Balakirev: Reminiscences of “A Life for the Czar””.
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1992· 2 entries
After the end of communist rule in Poland, his remains were transferred to Warsaw and placed in St
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Released album “Paderewski: Sonata, op. 13 / Szymanowski: Sonata, op. 9 / Lutosławski: Partita (1984)”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 1: Paderewski: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 17 / Moszkowski: Piano Concerto in E major, op. 59”.
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1954· 1 entry
Released album “Concerto in Brazilian Forms for Piano and Orchestra, op. 105 no. 2 / Fantasie Polonaise for Piano and Orchestra, op. 19”.
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1948· 1 entry
The Ignacy Paderewski Foundation was established in New York City, on the initiative of the local Polish community, with the goal of promoting Polish culture in the United States
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1941· 8 entries
Died 1941-06-29.
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“Droga do sukcesu jest pełna kobiet popychających mężów.”
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Paderewski witnessed a touching tribute to his artistry and humanitarianism as US cities celebrated the 50th anniversary of his first American tour by putting on a Paderewski Week, with over 6000 concerts in his honour
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“Cała ta sprawa interesowała mnie zresztą bardzo, a zawsze lubiłem przemawiać publicznie. Łatwość przemawiania, datująca się jeszcze z czasów młodości, okazała się wiele lat później bardzo cenna w mojej karierze politycznej.”
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“Każdy człowiek powinien zdawać sobie sprawę z faktu, że dobre i trwałe wyniki osiągnąć można jedynie drogą krótkich, lecz ciągłych, codziennych wysiłków. Jednorazowy wysiłek jest kompletnie jałowy. Prawdziwą umiejętność zarówno w nauce i w sztuce, jak i w każdych innych zajęciach, zdobyć można tylko codzienną pracą i codziennym wysiłkiem. I to jest bezwzględnie pewne.”
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“Jestem Polakiem, wiernym synem Ojczyzny. Myśl o Polsce wielkiej i silnej, wolnej i niepodległej była i jest treścią mojego istnienia, urzeczywistnienie jej było i jest jedynym celem mojego życia.”
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“… Nie zginie Polska, nie zginie! Lecz żyć będzie po wieki wieków w potędze i chwale. Dla was, dla nas i dla całej ludzkości.”
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“Sprawa narodu to nie interes, z którego wycofać się należy, gdy zamiast zysku straty przynosi. Sprawa narodu to praca ciągła, praca stała, wytrwałość, niezłomność, ofiarność nieprzerwana z pokolenia na pokolenia. Zaniechać jej nie wolno, a łożyć na nią, w miarę możliwości, zawsze się powinno.”
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1940· 1 entry
Became the head of the National Council of Poland, a Polish sejm (parliament) in exile in London
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1939· 2 entries
Career landmark: National Council of Poland (1939–1941).
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Paderewski returned to public life
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1937· 1 entry
As Moonlight Sonata, and was re-titled The Charmer when re-released in the US in 1943
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1936· 1 entry
Two years after his second wife's death at their Swiss home, a coalition of members of the opposition met in the mansion and was nicknamed the Front Morges after the village
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1933· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Lausanne (1933).
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1929).
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1926· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw (1926).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge (1926).
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Paderewski became an active member of the opposition to Sanacja rule
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1925· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow (1925).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (1925).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (1925).
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1924· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1924).
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1923· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Southern California (1923).
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1922· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from Columbia University (1922).
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Paderewski retired from politics and returned to his musical life
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1921· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the White Eagle (1921).
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1920· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford (1920).
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1919· 4 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (1919).
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In the newly independent Poland, Józef Piłsudski, who was the Chief of State, appointed Paderewski as the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (January 1919 – December 1919)
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Poland (1919–1919).
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (1919–1919).
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1918· 1 entry
“Opis: o przyjęciu Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego w Polsce na przełomie 1918 i 1919, tuż po odzyskaniu niepodległości.”
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1917· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Yale University (1917).
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1916· 3 entries
By Billy Murray, the narrator says: "And with the pedal, I love to meddle/When Paderewski comes this way
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In music halls across Britain with the song "When Paderewski Plays"
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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".
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1913· 1 entry
Paderewski settled in the United States
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1912· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Lviv University (1912).
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1910· 4 entries
“Opis: fragment przemówienia we Lwowie w 1910 z okazji 100-lecia urodzin Fryderyka Chopina.”
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“Opis: 15 lipca 1910 w Krakowie, u stóp ufundowanego przez siebie pomnika „grunwaldzkiego” (odsłoniętego w tym dniu z okazji 500-lecia zwycięstwa polsko-litewskiego oręża nad zaborcą krzyżackim).”
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Paderewski funded the Grunwald Monument in Kraków to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald
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“Opis: do Romana Dmowskiego, list z końca października 1910.”
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1909· 1 entry
Came the premiere of his Symphony in B minor "Polonia", a massive work lasting 75 minutes, which would be later transcribed for organ by the Polish organist Jerzy Dziubiński
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1906· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III (1906).
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1904· 1 entry
Paderewski, accompanied by his second wife, entourage, parrot, and Érard piano, gave concerts in Australia and New Zealand, in collaboration with Polish-French composer Henri Kowalski
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1898· 1 entry
Paderewski also launched a similar contest in Leipzig in 1898.
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1897· 2 entries
Won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (1897).
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Paderewski had bought the manor house of the former Duchess of Otrante near Morges, Switzerland, where he rested between concert tours
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1896· 2 entries
Paderewski donated US$10,000 to establish a trust fund to encourage American-born composers
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In 1896, Paderewski donated US$10,000 to establish a trust fund to encourage American-born composers.
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1891· 1 entry
Repeated his triumphs on an American tour
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1887· 1 entry
Made his concert debut in Vienna, soon gaining great popularity, and had popular successes in Paris in 1889 and in London in 1890
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1884· 1 entry
A chance meeting with a famous Polish actress, Helena Modjeska, began his career as a virtuoso pianist
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1881· 1 entry
Went to Berlin to study music composition with Friedrich Kiel and Heinrich Urban
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1880· 2 entries
Paderewski married fellow conservatory student Antonina Korsakówna
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Paderewski married a fellow student, Antonina Korsakówna
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1878· 1 entry
Became a piano tutor at his alma mater
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1860· 1 entry
Born 1860-11-18.
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