Ignace Jan Paderewski

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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 ...
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Composition Highlights

Title	Year	Avg. Duration	Genre
Menuet célèbre, humoresque de concert for piano in G major, Op. 14/1	1887	03:54	Keyboard
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17	1888	33:00	Concerto
Polish Fantasia on original themes, for piano & orchestra, Op. 19	1893	21:52	Concerto
Nocturne for piano in B flat major, Op. 16/4		04:18	Keyboard
Sonata for violin & piano in A minor, Op. 13	1880	25:22	Chamber Music
Tatra Album, for piano, Op. 12	1884	14:37	Keyboard
The Days of Roses, for voice & piano, Op. 7/1	1887	01:58	Vocal Music
Piano Sonata in E flat minor, Op. 21	1903	32:48	Keyboard
Cracovienne fantastique (Krakowiak), humoresque de concert for piano, Op. 14/6	1884	03:16	Keyboard
Mélodie, for piano in G flat major, Op. 16/2		04:20	Keyboard
Songs (12) of Catulle Mendès, for voice & piano, Op. 22	1903	29:53	Vocal Music
Allegro knocertowe (Allegro de Concert), for violin & piano		13:41	Chamber Music
Symphony in B minor, Op. 24 ("Polonia")	1907	01:13:35	Symphony
Variations & Fugue on an original theme, for piano in E flat minor, Op. 23	1903	29:27	Keyboard
Melody, for piano (Chants du voyageur), Op. 8/3	1883	02:48	Keyboard
Moja pieszczotka, song		01:55	Vocal Music
Humoresques de concert (6), for piano, Op. 14	1884	20:39	Keyboard
Siwy Koniu (To my faithful steed), for voice & piano, Op. 7/2	1887	01:36	Vocal Music
Overture		09:44
Intermezzo for piano No. 1 in G minor ("In the night of lightning;" W blyskawiczna noc)	1879	03:05	Keyboard