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3 unusual facts about Ignacy Jan Paderewski


Hotel Bristol, Warsaw

The Hotel Bristol was constructed from 1899-1900 on the site of the Tarnowski Palace by a company whose partners included Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski Polish Institute of Diplomacy

The current patron of the Institute is Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a statesman, eminent activist for independence, Polish Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and an outstanding pianist and composer.

Morgenthau Report

In June 1919, Herbert Hoover, then head of the American Relief Administration (ARA), after discussions with Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski, wrote to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson warning that the reports of atrocities were damaging the reputation of Poland, a nascent ally being cultivated by the U.S. to counter Soviet Russia.


Ciężkowice

Ignacy Jan Paderewski manor house with a spacious park, located on the other side of the Biala river, in the village of Kąśna Dolna.

Manru

Manru is an opera (lyrical drama) in three acts, music by Ignacy Jan Paderewski composed to the libretto by Alfred Nossig (English translation by H. E. Krehbiel), based on the novel A Hut Behind the Village (1843) by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

Roland Bader

Bader made numerous recordings throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most notably, with the music of Kurt Weill, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Joseph Joachim and others, including mainstream and the lesser-known 18th and 19th century masses by Mozart, Bruch, Beethoven, Bruckner, Weber, as well as Nicolai, Suppé, and Donizetti.

Theodor Leschetizky

The list of legendary pianists he taught includes Anna Yesipova, Richard Buhlig, Ignaz Friedman, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Artur Schnabel, Mark Hambourg, Alexander Brailowsky, Alexander Winkler, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Paul Wittgenstein, Natalia Polnazkovski and Mieczysław Horszowski.


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