Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Ignacy Jan Paderewski Herb Jelita (born 6 Novemberjul / November 18 1860greg in Kuryłówka, today Kuryliwka, .. † 29 June 1941 in New York City ) was a Polish pianist, composer and politician. In 1919, he became Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Second Polish Republic.

Life

From 1872 to 1878 he studied piano, assisted by the farmer's family Kerntopf at the Conservatory of Music Academy in Warsaw and with Friedrich Kiel at the Berlin Royal Academy of Academic performing art of music. As a pianist he achieved in 1887 the first public recognition. To the great success was his tour in the United States in the years 1891 and 1892. His most famous work as a composer is the 1888 resulting Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor (Op. 17). His only opera Manru 1901 premiered at the Semper Opera in Dresden in German.

1896-1902 he was resident at the Villa Riond - Bosson in Tolochenaz on Lake Geneva, then he moved to the United States. There he began his political activities.

During the First World War he supported thanks to its good political contacts, the efforts for the restoration of the sovereignty of Poland, representing the Polish National Committee ( Polski Komitet Narodowy ) 1917-1919 in the United States. Following a concert at the White House, he has been able to persuade President Woodrow Wilson to make the re- emergence of the Polish state to one of his key demands for the reorganization of Europe ( point 13 in Wilson's 14 -point program ). Together with Roman Dmowski he led the Polish delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and signed the Treaty of Versailles for Poland. In 1925 he was in London awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire ( GBE). After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he took over as chairman of the Rada Narodowa Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej of Poland in exile in London.

Paderewski died on a trip to the United States to obtain support for the occupied Poland. His body was kept in the Arlington National Cemetery, before he could be transferred to restore the Third Polish Republic on 28 June 1992, his old home and buried in the St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw.

After Paderewski of Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ) Airport and the Academy of Music poses were named. The Frederic Chopin Institute in Warsaw for over 60 years, publishes the Paderewski edition, long regarded as authoritative edition of the works of Frederic Chopin was. A series of Steinway pianos registered the name ' Paderewski Special Edition ".