In 1919 he signed the Treaty of Versailles and represented Poland at the Paris Peace Conference. That same year he served as the Prime Minister of Poland, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He served as Chief of the National Council of Poland from December 1939 until his death on June 29, 1941 at age 80.
So true ! I was in a church office talking to a gal. She had an accent and I asked. She was from Poland. So, I told her I really liked the composer Paderewski. And, when I told her I was awed that he was also the first Prime Minister of Poland, she said, No he wasn't!" I didn't argue because ~ why? But another gal wanted to know. So the Polish gal looked it up on her I-phone and read it aloud. I think she was thinking in modern day terms. He wasn't in the position for very long. But, yeah ! He signed the treaty that ended WWI ! However, can you imagine his personality ?! I bet he was more than awesome. Then, I learned he had a close friendship with actress Helena Modjeska (because I live in Orange County and there is her home in a canyon named after her). Anyway, great history to know.
Just beautiful. I remember auditioning in 8th grade to be accepted at the prestigious performing arts high school in my hometown of DC, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and was accepted into the school from playing this piece. I'm so thankful for being able to be a pianist 🎹
That must have been a thrill to play this piece which combines elegance and refinement, even a kind of daintiness, with real earthy passion and physicality. This piece has a great deal of charm, but emotional depth which can be conveyed according to the maturity of the musician, if the pianist can appreciate the layers of baroque, classical, and romantic written into the piece. Many young students play it to show their basic technique and musicality, but a good pianist will pick up on an accentuate the layers of styles Paderewski wrote into it. While Paderewski’s music cannot be compared to Chopin, it shares with Poland’s ultimate composer the nostalgia for bygone culture and earlier styles rooted in national folk musics. Anyway, I’d love to have heard your audition performance, and I’m sure you were smashing in it; so glad your audition succeeded and launched your musical career!!
How cool is this! Paderewski himself plays it with such whimsy. I think people are inclined to make this piece too dramatic, too bombastic. This is just perfect
I struggled playing this piece by Ignaz Paderewski. It is delightful to get the composer play it as he wanted it played. It is a beautiful minuet and I love it. Thanks to whoever put this on RU-vid to share.
Paderewski's later half of his life worked in politics and law and Poland government administration. His first half of his life was agreement termination by record label. Why record label wanted to terminate agreement with paderewski? Other pianists whose there was better than him. The most important was the number of audience who appreciate music. The more the audience enjoys the music, the more valuable the concert ticket. Record label at 1890 also needed to earn money. The less the audience enjoys the music, the price of the concert ticket depreciates. Record label at 1890 didn't make a loss business.
Wspaniały wielki Polak patriota nie wiem czy wiecie był jednym z najbogatszych Europejczyków cały majątek przeznaczył na ratowanie Polski ukochany ojczyzny ❤️🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
Ignaz Paderewski was such a great Pianist, he was a global phenomenon. How great his pure technique, the combination of finger action and arm weight, wonderful and exemplary indeed!
That was the generation of great pianists that could make a sound that was rich in so many tones and textures and colours. Sadly not today. I mean how can that lang lang compare to this!
Thanx maestro.that was charming.......Bet he could have blown away the sox off a Bosendorfer. He was still performing in his late 70's. I applaud him!!
great, when i was fifteen - over seventy years ago - i fell in love during a recital of my piano students of my piano teacher with the young man who played this and for years i could play it by heart. so great to hear it from the master itself. and while i lived then in zürich i live now in stralsund on the eastern sea ot far from poland.
This is from the movie "Moonlight Sonata" and is the only full-length film that Paderewski appeared in while alive. It was not unusual for the hard-working Paderewski to perform as many as 100 concerts in 120 days. To help accommodate this, the Maestro toured the country in his own private rail car, complete with his own staff of servants, which he paid well and treated like family. During one such exhausting concert, he injured the ring finger on his left hand. He refused to cancel his remaining engagements so that the finger could heal, and the finger never healed properly thereafter. The Maestro didn't let that stop him: he relearned every work in his repertoire to use the four working fingers on that hand.
Full movie with the best sound quality and with polish voice-over you can find here: vod.tvp.pl/website/sonata-ksiezycowa,39877939 We must thank to Polish Television (TVP) for this digital copy of this film! Cały film z najlepszą jakością dźwięku i polskim lektorem znajdziemy tutaj: vod.tvp.pl/website/sonata-ksiezycowa,39877939 Trzeba podziękować Telewizji Polskiej za udostępnienie tego filmu w formie cyfrowej.
I just read that VP candidate Truman played this piece on election night, 1944. We had three pianists in our childhood home of eight. I heard this piece many times but never more elegantly than by the composer himself.
I've known of Paderewski for a very long time, through a U.S. postage stamp, obtained years ago as a stamp collector but I don't believe I've ever heard or seen him play before now. It's interesting to realize that, decades ago, Hollywood used to feature great musicians & performers in a variety of movies without a 2nd thought, viewed as bringing culture to the masses, I imagine, a practice long-since abandoned. This is the 1st time I've ever heard this composition as far as I know. I came to learn of it only just today, in a short novel I began reading titled "The High Barbaree", a WW2 story co-written by Nordhoff & Hall, authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty". One of the main characters refers to having heard Paderewski's "Minuet in G" as played on the piano by his mother in rural Iowa. Upon this reference, I knew I wanted to hear it! Needless to say, it's lovely. I wonder from which movie this clip originates?
@jackbuckley7816 The clip is from Moonlight Sonata, a 1937 British drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and written by E. M. Delafield and E. Knoblock. The film stars Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Charles Farrell, Marie Tempest, Barbara Greene and Eric Portman.
Супер.... Этот обязательный танец... Уважения и вежливости.... Просто обязаны.... Изучить.... Вдоль и поперёк..... Каждой границы.... Общения..... Мои предки тоже и из Польши и ещё Бог знает откуда.... Вот поэтому тоя и люблю разную совершенно музыку отлично её и чувствую и продолжаю изучать... Это моё.... Удовольствие...... Всем поклон и мой привет.... Люблю нормальных, понимающих людей..........
We read books about his life experience and his experience of student period Paderewski's really story (1860 to 1941). His later half of life was resident in United States. Student period of Paderewski, compare with other excellent student in poland warsaw conservatory especially if on performance and composing, Paderewski's performance score and composing score were belong to weak. Although Paderewski and his classmates graduated in poland warsaw conservatory and received bachelor of music / master of music, but their direction are different at all. One of them is to be piano teacher in poland music school. One of them is to be concert pianist invited by record label. Paderewski's performance style and performance level was unwelcome by audience. Paderewski was termination agreement by poland record label. so that His life fell into the button. At that time / period, Paderewski determine to change his direction of career, worked in law and political, international foreign relationship. At first he joined poland national party to be membership in congress, gradually / keeping learning from excellent congressman. At second he was good at modest and prudent. At third he was good at organization and group together to establish his own poland independent party work hard and Paderewski become excellent leader at his poland independent party. That's reason why Paderewski choose to be career of politician and working in law. Not because Paderewski's depraved, the main reason was his performance level compared with excellent pianist was very weak level. For pianist's performance level there was better than him.
If i'm right -the right speed would have been about ~0.75x , although it would be like listening to the radio with a poor reception. Ignacy's brief speech at the beginning, sitting motion, the natural movement turning/fidgeting of audience's heads, watching, talking, and the freefall of his hands during his performance all indicate it was sped up (which was normal in 30s films).
@newFranzFerencLiszt Just digged in my library, have totally forgotten about it,, Additionally, I've not posted any video so far on my channel.. So, that's a good start, no? All the best, cheers!
Full movie with the best sound quality and with polish voice-over you can find here: vod.tvp.pl/website/sonata-ksiezycowa,39877939 We must thank to Polish Television (TVP) for this digital copy of this film! Cały film z najlepszą jakością dźwięku i polskim lektorem znajdziemy tutaj: vod.tvp.pl/website/sonata-ksiezycowa,39877939 Trzeba podziękować Telewizji Polskiej za udostępnienie tego filmu w formie cyfrowej.
The sound is distorted in the digital domain. Looks like a sample rate mismatch during copying. I guess such a sample desires a more professional treatment.
Full movie with the best sound quality and with polish voice-over you can find here: vod.tvp.pl/website/sonata-ksiezycowa,39877939 We must thank to Polish Television (TVP) for this digital copy of this film! Cały film z najlepszą jakością dźwięku i polskim lektorem znajdziemy tutaj: vod.tvp.pl/website/sonata-ksiezycowa,39877939 Trzeba podziękować Telewizji Polskiej za udostępnienie tego filmu w formie cyfrowej.
Full movie with the best sound quality and with polish voice-over you can find here: vod.tvp.pl/website/sonata-ksiezycowa,39877939 We must thank to Polish Television (TVP) for this digital copy of this film! Cały film z najlepszą jakością dźwięku i polskim lektorem znajdziemy tutaj: vod.tvp.pl/website/sonata-ksiezycowa,39877939 Trzeba podziękować Telewizji Polskiej za udostępnienie tego filmu w formie cyfrowej.
