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Biography of Ignace Jan PaderewskiName: Ignace Jan PaderewskiBirth Date: November 18, 1860 Death Date: June 29, 1941 Place of Birth: Kurilovka, Poland Nationality: Polish Gender: Male Occupations: musician, pianist, composer, statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), Polish pianist, composer, and statesman, was one of the best-known musicians of his time, as well as a very influential statesman who helped create modern Poland after World War I.Jan Paderewski was born in a rural section of Poland, where his father was an overseer for several large estates. Jan showed an interest in music at an early age and started to compose and to study piano with local teachers. His father sent Jan to Warsaw to enter the conservatory. His progress on the piano was not rapid, and his teacher advised him to study another instrument. He tried the flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and finally the trombone, which he played in the conservatory orchestra. The piano remained his chief interest, however.After graduation Paderewski taught for a few years, then went to Berlin to continue his studies. Once again he was advised that his talent …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…a houseguest of President Herbert Hoover. When in Rome he always visited the pope, who was a personal friend. He continued to play until 1939, and only his death in New York in 1941 stopped his work for Poland. Further Reading The Paderewski Memoirs (1938) covers only the early years of Paderewski's career. A full study is Charlotte Kellogg, Paderewski (1956). Interesting insights are in Aniela Strakacz, Paderewski as I Knew Him: From the Diary of Aniela Strakacz (1949), covering his life from 1918 to his death. See also the chapter on Paderewski in Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Pianists (1963).Drozdowski, Marian Marek, Ignacy Jan Paderewski: a political biography, Warsaw: Interpress, 1981, 1979. Landau, Rom, Ignace Paderewski, musician and statesman, New York: AMS Press, 1976.Paderewski, Ignace Jan, The Paderewski memoirs, New York: Da Capo Press, 1980, 1938.Phillips, Charles Joseph MacConaghy, Paderewski, the story of a modern immortal, New York: Da Capo Press, 1978, c1933. Zamoyski, Adam, Paderewski, New York: Atheneum, 1982. |