Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Paderewski's career had a Faustian cast. His demonically driven determination to become a concert pianist, his magical audience rapport, his rapture-rife music, his political career as Poland's first prime minister, and his subsequent efforts to rescue Poland from political quagmire wear a legendary aura more often encountered in poetry. Born to a well-off, cultivated family, young Paderewski received piano lessons from an early age, entering the Warsaw Music Institute before he was 12 to study piano, harmony, and counterpoint. Upon graduation in 1878 the Institute engaged him as a piano teacher. By 1880 he was married and a year later found himself a widower and father of a son. Forsaking the musical backwater of Warsaw for cosmopolitan Berlin, Paderewski pursued composition studies between 1881 and 1883 while moving in the social orbit of the greatest musicians of the day: a young Richard Strauss, for instance, and the lionized Anton Rubinstein. Moszkowski was influential in having Paderewski's early piano pieces published. Feeling the need for further piano study, Paderewski applied in 1884 to the great Polish pianist and pedagogue Theodor Leschetizky who, upon hearing him, cried "Too late, too late!" Despite talent, Paderewski did not possess a fluent mécanique -- during three intensive years with Leschetizky, he transformed mediocre ability into a world-class technique. But well before his Vienna debut in 1888, the beginning of his career, Paderewski possessed the hypnotic, leonine, compelling presence that informed his playing and brought him world fame. This began with appearances in London and New York in 1890 and over 100 concerts in the U.S. and Canada immediately following -- a grueling schedule that was annually repeated. Other tours took him to South America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, as well as the greater and lesser cities of Europe. From the late 1880s into the new century, major compositions fell from his pen -- the celebrated Minuet in G, Op. 14/1 (1887), a Piano Concerto (1888), the opera Manru (1892-1901), a Piano Sonata (1903), and a Symphony (1903-1909). Box office success was translated into good works, sponsorship of competitions, and in 1915, the Polish Victims Relief Fund. In 1919 he was chosen independent Poland's first Prime Minister, in which capacity he signed the Versailles treaty. He resumed his concert career in 1922, touring into old age and frailty to raise funds for the Polish cause in the wake of the Nazi invasion in 1939. Dying in New York in 1941, he was given a hero's burial in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Diskografie
19 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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PADEREWSKI, Ignace: Paderewski Plays Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert and Debussy (Piano Rolls) (Ludwig van Beethoven - Franz Liszt - Claude Debussy)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Klavier am 01.01.1989
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski. The American Recordings
Klassik - Erschienen bei APR am 06.01.2017
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Paderewski: His Final Recordings – The HMV Recordings (Recorded 1937-1938)
Klassik - Erschienen bei APR am 01.09.2009
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Greatest Classical Masters (1911-1930)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Classical Masters am 01.02.2010
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Brillante - The Adam Makowicz Chopin Project
Adam Makowicz, Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Jazz - Erschienen bei J.A.M. Global Arts am 01.01.2011
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The Polish Virtuoso
Ignaz Friedman, Josef Hofmann, Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Nimbus Records am 01.01.1995
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Paderewski on Welte-Mignon Rolls
Klassik - Erschienen bei DUX am 01.08.2013
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Pianistes immortels (Mono Version)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Serge Rachmaninoff, Harold Bauer
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1962
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Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls, Vol. 1 (1905-1927)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 30.06.2003
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Paderewski: His Earliest Recordings & The Complete European Recordings (Recorded 1911-1912)
Klassik - Erschienen bei APR am 01.03.2008
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Enregistrements Victor (1914-1941)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 04.12.2008
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Paderewski: The 1911/1930 Original 78s
Klassik - Erschienen bei Urania am 06.02.2008
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Josef Hofmann And Ignacy Jan Paderewski Play Lizst
Josef Hofmann, Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Everest Records am 30.08.1968
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Paderewski: Minuet in G Major, Op. 14/1 (Digitally Remastered)
Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Ilmar Lapinsch
Klassik - Erschienen bei EMG Classical am 28.10.2014
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Notturni
Leopold Godowsky, Vladimir De Pachmann, Ignaz Friedman, Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Scaccomatto am 15.05.2016
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NKB SP Selection No. 1, Self-composed Performance
Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Fritz Kreisler, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Pablo de Sarasate
Klassik - Erschienen bei NKB Record am 25.08.2023
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The Great Polish Chopin Tradition: Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Selene Records am 01.12.2012
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Greatest Classical Masters - 1911-1930
Klassik - Erschienen bei Unchained Melodie am 01.12.2010
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