Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBEThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions...
(18 November 186029 June 1941) was a
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pianistA pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
,
composerA composer is a person who creates music, usually by musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of...
,
diplomatA diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organisation. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...
, politician, and the third
Prime Minister of the Republic of PolandThe Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland represents the Council of Ministers and directs their work, supervises territorial self-government within the guidelines and in ways described in the Constitution and other legislation, and acts as the superior for all government administration workers...
. He is sometimes referred to by the German version of his name
Ignaz Paderewski.
Biography
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was born in the village of Kuryłówka in the province of
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, then in the
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(now
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). His father was an administrator of large estates. His mother, Poliksena (
née Nowicka), died several months after Paderewski was born, and he was brought up by his distant relatives.
From his early childhood, Paderewski was interested in music. Initially he took piano lessons with a private tutor. At the age of 12, in 1872, he went to
WarsawWarsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of 2009 was estimated at 1,709,781, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000...
and was admitted to the Warsaw Conservatorium. After graduating in 1878, he was asked to become a tutor of piano classes at his
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, which he accepted. In 1880 Paderewski married Antonina Korsakówna, and soon afterwards, their first child was born. The following year, they discovered that the son was handicapped; soon afterward, Antonina died. Paderewski decided to devote himself to music, and in 1881 he went to
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to study music composition with
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and Heinrich Urban. In 1884 he moved to
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, where he was a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky. It was in Vienna that he made his musical debut in 1887. He soon gained great popularity and his subsequent appearances (in Paris in 1889, and in
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in 1890) were major successes. His brilliant playing created a furore which reached to almost extravagant lengths of admiration; and his triumphs were repeated in the United States in 1891. His name at once became synonymous with the highest level of piano virtuosity.
In 1899 he married Baroness de Rosen.
He was also a substantial composer, including many pieces for piano. In 1901 his sole opera
ManruManru is an opera in three acts, music by Ignacy Jan Paderewski composed to the libretto by Alfred Nossig Manru is an opera (lyrical drama) in three acts, music by Ignacy Jan Paderewski composed to the libretto by Alfred Nossig Manru is an opera (lyrical drama) in three acts, music by Ignacy Jan...
received the world premiere at
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, then it had American premiere in 1902 at the
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and to this day remains the only
Polish operaPolish opera is the art of opera in Poland. It may be regarded as the tradition of staging operas in Poland, or the tradition of Polish composers and librettists writing operas in the Polish language...
by a Polish composer ever performed there.
Paderewski, his second wife, entourage, parrot and Erard piano travelled to
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,
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from
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,
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aboard the steamer
Zealandia on 28 August 1904 . He travelled to
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by train and gave a concert there on 12 September. .
He was also active in pursuing various philanthropic causes. In 1910 he funded the erection of the
Battle of GrunwaldThe Battle of Grunwald took place on July 15, 1410 with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led by the king Jogaila , ranged against the knights of the Teutonic Order, led by the Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen...
Monument in Kraków, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the event. In 1913, Paderewski settled in the United States.
On the eve of World War I, and at the height of his fame, Paderewski bought a property, Rancho San Ignacio, near Paso Robles, in San Luis Obispo County, on the central coast of California. A decade later he planted Zinfandel vines on the California property. When the vines matured, the wine was made for him at the nearby York Mountain Winery, then, as now, one of the best-known wineries between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
He was extremely popular internationally, to such an extent 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".
During
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, Paderewski became an active member of the
Polish National CommitteePolish National Committee was formed in France in 1917 by Polish National Democracy politician Roman Dmowski. Its goal was to support Entente by creating a Polish army fighting alongside of it in exchange of receiving support for independent Poland...
in
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, which was soon accepted by the
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as the representative of
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. He became a spokesman of that organisation and soon also formed other social and political organisations, among them the Polish Relief Fund in
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. It was then that he met the English composer
Edward ElgarSir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO was an English composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim. He also composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies, instrumental concertos,...
who used a theme from Paderewski's
Fantasie Polonaise in his work
PoloniaPolonia is a symphonic prelude by the English composer Edward Elgar written in 1915 as his Op. 76.-History:It was first performed at the Polish Victims' Relief Fund Concert in the Queen's Hall, London on 6 July 1915, with the orchestra conducted by the composer...
written for the Polish Relief Fund concert in London on 6 July 1916.
In April 1918, he met in
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with leaders of the
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, including
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, in an unsuccessful attempt to broker a deal whereby organized
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ish groups would support Polish territorial ambitions in exchange for support for equal rights. However, it soon became clear that no plan would satisfy both Jewish leaders and
Roman DmowskiRoman Dmowski was a Polish politician, statesman, and chief ideologue and co-founder of the National Democratic Party .-Early life:...
, head of the Polish National Committee.
At the end of the war, with the fate of the city of
PoznańPoznań is a city in west-central Poland with over 557,264 inhabitants . Located on the Warta River, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, making it an important historical centre and a vibrant centre of trade, industry, and education. Poznań is Poland's fifth largest city and fourth biggest...
and the whole region of
Greater PolandGreater Poland or Great Poland, Polish Wielkopolska is a historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief city is Poznań...
(Wielkopolska) still undecided, Paderewski visited Poznań. With his public speech on 27 December 1918, the Polish inhabitants of Poznań began a military uprising against Germany, called the
Greater Poland UprisingThe Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918–1919 or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region against Germany...
.
In 1919, in the newly independent Poland, Paderewski became the
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and Minister of Foreign Affairs (January 1919-December 1919), and he thus represented Poland at the
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. In the summer of that year, he signed the
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, which restored the territories of Greater Poland and Pomerania around the City of Gdańsk to Poland. Although this fell short of what the Polish delegates had demanded, these territories provided the core of the restored Polish state.
After being abandoned by many of his political supporters, Paderewski handed Piłsudski a letter of resignation on 4 December 1919, whereupon he took on the role of Polish Ambassador to the
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.
In 1922 he retired from politics and returned to his musical life. His first concert after a long break, held at
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, was a significant success. He also filled Madison Square Garden (20,000 seats) and toured the United States in a private railway car..
Soon he moved to
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in
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. After Piłsudski's coup d'état in 1926, Paderewski became an active member of the opposition to
SanacjaSanacja was a coalition political movement in the interwar Second Polish Republic. It was created in 1926 by Józef Piłsudski as a broad movement to support the "moral sanation" of the Polish body politic before and after the May 1926 Coup d'État that brought Piłsudski to virtually dictatorial...
rule. In 1936 in his mansion a coalition of members of the opposition was signed; it was nicknamed the
Front MorgesFront Morges was a political alliance of center political parties of interwar Poland . It was founded in 1936 in the Swiss village of Morges by general Władysław Sikorski and former Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Paderewski. Prominent activists included Józef Haller, Wojciech Korfanty, and Karol Popiel...
after the name of the village.
By 1936, two years after the death of his wife, Paderewski consented to appear in a film presenting his talent and art on the screen. This proposal had come at a time when Paderewski did not wish to appear in public. However, the film project did proceed and the selected film script was rather an opportunity to feature Paderewski. The film
Moonlight Sonata was filmed throughout 1936.
In November 1937 Paderewski agreed to take on one last pupil for piano. This musician was Witold Małcużyński, who had won second place at the
International Frederick Chopin Piano CompetitionThe International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition is a piano competition taking place in Warsaw since 1927 and held every 5 years since 1955.It was founded by the Polish pianist Jerzy Żurawlew, and named after Frédéric Chopin.- Prize winners :...
.
After the
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of 1939 Paderewski returned to public life. In 1940 he became the head of the Polish National Council, a Polish
parliamentThe Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. Each member of Sejm is called Poseł.Before the 20th century, the term "Sejm" referred to the entire three-chamber Polish parliament, comprising the lower house , the upper house and the King. It was commonly termed a three-estate parliament...
in exile in
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. The eighty-year-old artist also restarted his Polish Relief Fund and gave several concerts (most notably in the United States) to gather money for it. However, his mind was not what it had once been: scheduled again to play Madison Square Garden, he refused to appear, insisting that he had already played the concert, presumably remembering the concert he had played in the 1920s.
In addition to his concert tours, Paderewski was a popular speaker who was renowned for his wit, and was often quoted. He was once introduced to a polo player with the words: "You are both leaders in your spheres, though the spheres are very different." "Not so very different," Paderewski replied. "You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo."
In another incident, Paderewski once recalled, "I established a certain standard of behaviour, that, during my playing, there must be no talking. When they began to talk, I would stop. I would say, 'I am sorry to interrupt your conversation. I deeply regret that I am obliged to disturb you, so I am going to stop for a while to allow you to continue talking.' You can imagine the effect it had..."
During one such tour in 1941, Paderewski was taken ill on 27 June. Nothing was discussed with his personal secretary or entourage. But at the initiative of Sylwin Strakacz, physicians were called in for consultation and diagnosed pneumonia. Despite increasing health and signs of recovery Paderewski died suddenly in
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, at 11:00 p.m. on 29 June. He was buried in
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, in Arlington
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, near
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. In 1992, his body was brought to
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and placed in St. John's Cathedral. His heart is encased in a bronze sculpture in the
National Shrine of Our Lady of CzestochowaThe National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa , known also as the American Czestochowa is a Polish-American Roman Catholic shrine near Doylestown, Pennsylvania, founded in 1953. It houses a reproduction of the Black Madonna icon of Częstochowa, Poland...
near
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.
The
Polish Museum of AmericaThe Polish Museum of America is located in West Town, in what had been the historical Polish Downtown neighborhood of Chicago. It is home to a plethora of Polish artifacts, artwork, and embroidered folk costumes among its growing collection...
in Chicago received a donation of the personal possessions of Ignacy Jan Paderewski following his death in June 1941. Both Ignacy Paderewski and his sister, Antonina Paderewska Wilkonska were enthusiastic supporters and generous sponsors of the Museum. Antonina, executor of Ignacy’s will, decided to donate these personal possessions to the Museum. In addition, the management of the Buckingham Hotel in New York City, where Ignacy spent the last months of his life, allowed Antonina to obtain the furnishings from the suite of rooms he had occupied. These furnishings were also donated to the Museum. With the assistance of Ignacy’s personal secretary, the furnishings and his personal mementos were arranged for public display in the room that had been the first display room of the Museum in 1937. This revised space was officially re-opened with a special dedication ceremony on 3 November 1941, the date that would have marked Paderewski's 81st birthday.
Memorials and tributes
In 1948 the
Ignacy Paderewski Foundation was established in New York City, on the initiative of the
Polish communityPolonia, which is the name for Poland in Latin and in many other languages, refers in modern Polish language to the Polish diaspora, and to people of Polish origin who live outside Poland....
in New York with the goal of promoting Polish culture in the United States.. Two other Polish-American organizations are also named in his honor and dedicated to promoting the legacy of the maestro: The
Paderewski Association in
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as well as the
Paderewski Music Society in
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.
Due to the unusual combination of the notable achievements of being a world class pianist and a successful politician, Paderewski has become a favourite example for philosophers, and is often discussed in relation to
Saul KripkeSaul Aaron Kripke is an American philosopher and logician, now emeritus from Princeton. He teaches as distinguished professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. Since the 1960s Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics,...
's "A Puzzle about Belief" for having a name that denotes two distinct qualities, that of being a politician and that of being a pianist.
Nowadays there are streets named after Paderewski in many major cities in Poland. There are also streets named after him in
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, and
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. In addition, the Academy of Music in Poznań is named after him. Paderewski even has his own star on the famous
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in
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.
Paderewski's ghost
There have been numerous claims that the
Paderewski Room at the
Polish Museum of AmericaThe Polish Museum of America is located in West Town, in what had been the historical Polish Downtown neighborhood of Chicago. It is home to a plethora of Polish artifacts, artwork, and embroidered folk costumes among its growing collection...
is haunted by the
ghostA ghost has been defined as the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person, although in popular usage the term refers only to the apparition of such a person...
of Paderewski himself. The staff recounts a number of incidents related by a number of people, including the cleaning crew who have claimed to experience ghostly-related phenomena late at night. The Ghost Research Society was even brought in by the museum staff to investigate these claims.
Medals and awards
- Virtuti Militari
The Order Virtuti Militari is Poland's highest military decoration for courage in the face of the enemy. It was created in 1792 by Poland's King Stanisław August Poniatowski and is considered as one of the oldest military decorations in the world still in use.It is awarded in five classes either...
- Légion d'honneur
The Légion d'honneur or Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
- In 1925 he was made an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions...
. This entitled him to the postnominal letters GBE but not to be known as "Sir Ignacy" (despite the erroneous claim in Time magazine), that title being reserved for British citizens
- Doctorate honoris causa of universities in Lwów (1912), Kraków
The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kraków...
(1919) and Poznań (1924), as well as several universities in the United States
External links
- An article about J.I. Paderewski by Lt. Gen. Edward Rowny
Lieutenant General Edward Rowny, born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1917 in a Polish family, was a U.S. Army general and an ambassador, chief U.S. negotiator in arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union, and one of the originators of the helicopter as a platform for combat...
- Paderewski Music Society in Los Angeles
- The Paderewski Association
- J.I. Paderewski Chamber Orchestra
- J.I. Paderewski Tarnow Estate - Kasna Dolna
- J.I. Paderewski International Piano Competition
- J.I. Paderewski Youth Classical Piano Competition in Paso Robles, California
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- Tempo Rubato - Chapter contributed to Henry T. Finck
Henry Theophilus Finck was an American musical critic, born at Bethel, Missouri, and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he was taught piano and violincello. He taught himself Latin and Greek so thoroughly that he was able to enter Harvard as a sophomore in 1872...
's book Success in music and how it is won (1909)
Recordings by Paderewski
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