Pianist, composer, statesman

1 /image/image_gallery?uuid=bd494995-3eee-4697-a52c-2d551169bc3a&groupId=37090005 324 460 Paderewski, ca. 1872 2 $prev
2 /image/image_gallery?uuid=2c078b98-4dfc-4344-8106-a53d66666404&groupId=37090005 460 324 Poster announcing Paderewski's first recital at the Salle Erard in Paris 3 1
3 /image/image_gallery?uuid=602c66c4-15d6-4a33-a2f5-6274aa161a48&groupId=37090005 459 408 Paderewski at his Pullman with his wife and the staff, ca. 1900 4 2
4 /image/image_gallery?uuid=18fb11bd-49cc-4216-89ec-e5c2064056a3&groupId=37090005 297 460 The audience at one of Paderewski's concert 5 3
5 /image/image_gallery?uuid=574055d7-cd1b-4c26-9e3b-0c19b32742ae&groupId=37090005 439 460 Paderewski while recording a broadcast for NBC, 1939 6 4
6 /image/image_gallery?uuid=e0467d31-a0ea-4c05-930b-80bbd4e384ec&groupId=37090005 383 460 From the movie Moonlight Sonata, directed by Lothar Mendes for Pall Mall Productions (donated by Anne Strakacz-Appleton) 7 5
7 /image/image_gallery?uuid=d5259267-bf98-4961-b6ed-d320db76eff0&groupId=37090005 341 460 In the years 1915-1917, Paderewski gave more than 300 charity concerts in the US; usually these performances were preceded by the artist's appeals for financial assistance to Poles stricken by the war 8 6
8 /image/image_gallery?uuid=590f023c-adeb-4600-ae66-3ff0137ec62f&groupId=37090005 340 452 Programme for Paderewski Recital at Royal Albert Hall, January 12th 1933 in Aid of the Musician's Benevolent Fund 9 7
9 /image/image_gallery?uuid=6128052b-3a74-4aab-818c-cd08c1ecb9ce&groupId=37090005 392 460 The title page of the autograph of Paderewski's Humoresques de Concert op. 14 10 8
10 /image/image_gallery?uuid=35d285a3-357c-4fcb-99fa-fe64a44ddb05&groupId=37090005 370 460 Hej, Orle Biały! Hymn bojowy… [Hey, White Eagle, Military Anthem..], dedicated to the Polish Army in America, the last composition by Paderewski 11 9
11 /image/image_gallery?uuid=2dd524cb-b7b5-4af6-86b7-9e0e665e7a4f&groupId=37090005 460 294 Paderewski speaking at the unveiling of the Grunwald monument, Kraków, July 15, 1910 12 10
12 /image/image_gallery?uuid=16d0ff63-feb0-4747-81c5-cd772cc1c1ad&groupId=37090005 289 460 The celebration of 500 anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald, Kraków, July 15, 1910 13 11
13 /image/image_gallery?uuid=05c171ec-5580-42ac-bc83-e354faf4cd32&groupId=37090005 460 338 Paderewski and his wife on the dais of the Polish Army training Camp at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, November 1917 (donated by Anne Strakacz-Appleton) 14 12
14 /image/image_gallery?uuid=1ee3d777-d8ba-431e-b533-b453bfbf8f36&groupId=37090005 460 278 Vevey 1924, Sienkiewicz's remains were repatriated to Warsaw; Paderewski speaking at the solemn memorial ceremony (donated by Anne Strakacz-Appleton) 15 13
15 /image/image_gallery?uuid=4bfc0f8f-fb08-4805-a373-9db6fd3a2fac&groupId=37090005 459 286 The cabinet of Prime Minister Ignacy J. Paderewski in session on January 25, 1919 16 14
16 /image/image_gallery?uuid=3aeefe3d-9003-441f-8917-7e53f2ee2a94&groupId=37090005 460 263 Ignacy J. Paderewski, the Prime Minister of the new Polish Republic and his wife Helena with Herbert Hoover, the president of the American Relief Administration (ARA), Warsaw 1919. The ARA, with its food aid and provision of economic assistance and expertise, played an important role in bringing about stability in the newly independent state of Poland 17 15
17 /image/image_gallery?uuid=90af1b0d-5eb0-4228-9486-932a6861c420&groupId=37090005 460 446 Ignacy J. Paderewski, (above) Paderewski's adiutant, Franciszek Xavery Pusłowski, Herbert Hoover, (above) the interior minister Stanisław Wojciechowski, Marshal Józef Piłsudski, in front of Belvedere Palace in Warsaw, 1919 18 16
18 /image/image_gallery?uuid=23c66037-8adb-432d-b75e-c65fb32d7918&groupId=37090005 317 460 Gen. Władysław Sikorski at Riond-Bosson 19 17
19 /image/image_gallery?uuid=08ef32ef-c918-4695-8a47-30a1ff566178&groupId=37090005 460 246 Creators of the Front Morges: Paderewski, gen. Józef Haller, Wincenty Witos, Riond-Bosson, February 20, 1936 20 18
20 /image/image_gallery?uuid=66753182-0f99-4bae-aecd-92bd45e9fcf3&groupId=37090005 308 460 Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Paderewski and Władysław Sikorski, Florida 1941 (donated by Anne Strakacz-Appleton) 21 19
21 /image/image_gallery?uuid=3d5dfa2a-149c-479c-9a6e-8e0b5568fab6&groupId=37090005 460 369 Paderewski at a meeting of Polish military veterans in Oak Ridge (NJ), June 22, 1941 22 20
22 /image/image_gallery?uuid=8c562400-e75a-49bf-91ae-276f211ce97c&groupId=37090005 310 460 Paderewski's last speech at a meeting of Polish military veterans in Oak Ridge (NJ), June 22, 1941 23 21
23 /image/image_gallery?uuid=77ae0574-55e6-40e3-a55f-dae20c4fea39&groupId=37090005 446 354 Paderewski funeral cortege in Arlington National Cemetery, July 5, 1941 24 22
24 /image/image_gallery?uuid=84ce5637-c76a-4d30-9e9d-d1732a633c17&groupId=37090005 460 436 Reburial ceremony of Paderewski, St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw, June29, 1992 25 23