• Name: Ignace Jan Paderewski
• Birthday: 11/18/1860
• Birth Place: Kurylowka, Poland
• Died: 06/29/1941
• Place of Death: New York, NY
• Period: Modern
• Genre: Classical

Title	Release
Ignace Jan Paderewski plays Paderewski, Chopin & Liszt	2008
Paderewski: His Earliest Recordings	2008
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Minuet & Other Favourites WA	2005
Paderewski plays Paderewski	2003
Paderewski on Welte-Mignon Rolls	2001
Ignacy Jan Paderewski	1999
Paderewski: Pianist & Composer	1999
The Genesis Recordings of Legendary Pianists, Vol. 2	1999
Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven, etc.	1997
The Chopin Recordings 1911- 1938	1996
Ignace Paderewski Plays Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, Debussy	1989
Ignace Paderewski Plays Chopin	1989
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Ignace Jan Paderewski: The 1911 / 1930 Original 78s
Paderewski plays Chopin, Vol. 1 WA
Paderewski Plays Chopin, Vol.2
Paderewski Portrait
Romantic Music
The Art of Paderewski WA
The Art of Paderewski, Vol. I
The Art of Paderewski, Vol.II
Album de Mai, scènes romantiques for piano, Op. 10
Allegro knocertowe (Allegro de Concert), for violin & piano	2001
(2) Chant d'amour, for piano (Album de mai), Op. 10/2	1995
(6) Chants du voyageur, for piano, Op. 8
Chlopca Mego Mi Zabrali (My love is sent away), Op. 7/4	1995
(7) Cracovienne fantastique (Krakowiak), humoresque de concert for piano, Op. 14/6	1995
Dans le désert, musical tableau in toccata form for piano, Op. 15	2007
(26) Humoresques de concert (6), for piano, Op. 14	1937
Intermezzo for piano No. 1 in G minor ("In the night of lightning;" W blyskawiczna noc)
Intermezzo for piano No. 2 in C minor
Krakowiak, for piano in B flat minor, Op. 5/3	1973
Krakowiak, for piano in F major, Op.9/1	1932
(2) Légend, for piano, Op. 16/1	2004
(7) Manru, opera, Op. 20	1907
(10) Mélodie, for piano in G flat major, Op. 16/2
(6) Melody, for piano (Chants du voyageur), Op. 8/3	1995
(2) Menuet à l'antique
(43) Menuet célèbre, humoresque de concert for piano in G major, Op. 14/1
(3) Minuet in G major (with quartet)	1987
(8) Minuet(s)
(18) Miscellanea, for piano, Op. 16
Moja pieszczotka, song WA	1919
My eyes have known tears, for voice & piano, Op. 18/1	1973
(2) Nie Bede Cie Rwala (Little Lily of the Valley), for voice & piano	1995
(15) Nocturne for piano in B flat major, Op. 16/4	1987
Overture	1997
(16) Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17
(7) Piano Sonata in E flat minor, Op. 21
(2) Polish Dances (3), for piano, Op. 5	1994
Polish Dances (6), for piano, Op. 9	1996
(11) Polish Fantasia on original themes, for piano & orchestra, Op. 19
Siwy Koniu (To my faithful steed), for voice & piano, Op. 7/2	1995
(4) Sonata for violin & piano in A minor, Op. 13	1988
(2) Songs (12) of Catulle Mendès, for voice & piano, Op. 22	2000
Songs (4) Op. 7	2007
(6) Songs (6), for voice & piano, Op. 18	1919
(3) Symphony in B minor, Op. 24 ("Polonia")
Szumi W Gaju Brzezina (The Birch tree and the maiden), for voice & piano, Op. 7/3	1995
Tatra Album, for piano, 4 hands, Op. 12	1998
(4) Tatra Album, for piano, Op. 12 WA
(2) The Days of Roses, for voice & piano, Op. 7/1	1973
(3) Thème varié, for piano, Op. 16/3	2004
(3) Variations & Fugue on an original theme, for piano in E flat minor, Op. 23	1994
(2) Variations & Fugue, for piano in A minor, Op. 11	1986
(2) Work(s)

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 of the greatest musicians of the day: a young Richard Strauss, for instance, and the lionized Anton Rubinstein. Moszkowski was influential in having Paderewski's early piano pieces published. Feeling the need for further piano study, Paderewski applied in 1884 to the great Polish pianist and pedagogue Theodor Leschetizky who, upon hearing him, cried "Too late, too late!" Despite talent, Paderewski did not possess a fluent mécanique -- during three intensive years with Leschetizky, he transformed mediocre ability into a world-class technique. But well before his Vienna debut in 1888, the beginning of his career, Paderewski possessed the hypnotic, leonine, compelling presence that informed his playing and brought him world fame. This began with appearances in London and New York in 1890 and over 100 concerts in the U.S. and Canada immediately following -- a grueling schedule that was annually repeated. Other tours took him to South America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, as well as the greater and lesser cities of Europe. From the late 1880s into the new century, major compositions fell from his pen -- the celebrated Minuet in G, Op. 14/1 (1887), a Piano Concerto (1888), the opera Manru (1892-1901), a Piano Sonata (1903), and a Symphony (1903-1909). Box office success was translated into good works, sponsorship of competitions, and in 1915, the Polish Victims Relief Fund. In 1919 he was chosen independent Poland's first Prime Minister, in which capacity he signed the Versailles treaty. He resumed his concert career in 1922, touring into old age and frailty to raise funds for the Polish cause in the wake of the Nazi invasion in 1939. Dying in New York in 1941, he was given a hero's burial in Arlington National Cemetery. ~ Adrian Corleonis, All Music Guide