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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Discografía
15 álbum(es) • Ordenado por Mejores ventas
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PADEREWSKI, Ignace: Paderewski Plays Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert and Debussy (Piano Rolls) (Ludwig van Beethoven - Franz Liszt - Claude Debussy)
Clásica - Editado por Klavier el 1 ene. 1989
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski. The American Recordings
Clásica - Editado por APR el 6 ene. 2017
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Paderewski: His Final Recordings – The HMV Recordings (Recorded 1937-1938)
Clásica - Editado por APR el 1 sep. 2009
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Brillante - The Adam Makowicz Chopin Project
Adam Makowicz, Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Jazz - Editado por J.A.M. Global Arts el 1 ene. 2011
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Paderewski on Welte-Mignon Rolls
Clásica - Editado por DUX el 1 ago. 2013
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Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls, Vol. 1 (1905-1927)
Clásica - Editado por Naxos el 30 jun. 2003
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Paderewski: His Earliest Recordings & The Complete European Recordings (Recorded 1911-1912)
Clásica - Editado por APR el 1 mar. 2008
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Enregistrements Victor (1914-1941)
Clásica - Editado por Naxos el 4 dic. 2008
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Josef Hofmann And Ignacy Jan Paderewski Play Lizst
Josef Hofmann, Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Clásica - Editado por Everest Records el 30 ago. 1968
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Paderewski: Minuet in G Major, Op. 14/1 (Digitally Remastered)
Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Ilmar Lapinsch
Clásica - Editado por EMG Classical el 28 oct. 2014
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Notturni
Leopold Godowsky, Vladimir De Pachmann, Ignaz Friedman, Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Clásica - Editado por Scaccomatto el 15 may. 2016
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Chopin: Waltzes, Op.64 No.2 Tempo giusto in C-Sharp minor (2024 Remaster)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Frédéric Chopin
Clásica - Editado por Pastel Records Canada el 10 may. 2024
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NKB SP Selection No. 1, Self-composed Performance
Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Fritz Kreisler, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Pablo de Sarasate
Clásica - Editado por NKB Record el 25 ago. 2023
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The Great Polish Chopin Tradition: Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Clásica - Editado por Selene Records el 1 dic. 2012
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Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, Op.27 No.2 (2024 Remaster)
Clásica - Editado por Pastel Records Canada el 24 may. 2024
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