Ignacy Jan Paderewski (Paderewski Ignacy Jan)

(1860-1941)
Born November 18, 1860 in s.Kurilovka in Podolia (now Ukraine). Although the boy started playing piano at age three and composing at age seven, he grew rather slowly, being engaged at first in private teachers, and then at the Warsaw Music Institute (later taught there piano). Engaged in Berlin, where Paderewski noticed Anton Rubinstein and other famous musicians. In 1884 Paderewski began studying with renowned teacher T. Leschetizky.
After the artistic debuts in Vienna (1887), Paris (1889), London (1890) and New York (1891) addressed Paderewski treated on a par with the name of Franz Liszt - both called the greatest pianists of the world. Although numerous works Paderewski (almost all genres) remain in the shadow of his fame performing, . his opera Munro, . staged in Dresden in 1901, . subsequently appeared on the stages of a number of famous opera houses in the U.S., . and his Minuet in G major (part of the cycle Six humoresques for piano) vied in popularity with minuets Beethoven,
. Paderewski was also an ardent patriot of Poland. Double-headed the Polish government: in 1919 and in 1940-1941 (Government in exile). A number of sound recordings and one reel of film (Moonlight Sonata, 1936) for bringing this to the descendants of the samples of the unique art of Paderewski. Paderewski died in New York on 29 June 1941.