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...PADEREWSKI MEMOIRS-Ignace Jan Paderewski & Mary Lawton-Scribner...
Today, 77-year-old, white-haired Paderewski lives quietly in a sprawling baroque villa at Merges, Switzerland. His careers as No. 1 Pianist and No. 1 Pole are both long past. This week, with the collaboration of Actress-Author Mary Lawton, he publishes a volume of memoirs* covering the first of these two careers (1860-1914), promises another volume at a later date...
Unlike many famous musicians, Paderewski was no infant prodigy. Though he took piano, violin, cello and even trumpet lessons at an early age, his teachers at the Warsaw Conservatory considered him a promising composer rather than a concert artist. Not until he was 28 did he manage to make his debut in-Paris; even then he knew only enough music to fill one program. Debutant Paderewski had to go back and learn more pieces before he could appear again. But this he did with dogged determination, and soon the musical world began to realize that the composer of the famous...
Though Patriot-Pianist Paderewski has lived to see his dreams of Polish independence realized and himself a legend in the history of music, it is naturally toward his heyday, the Victorian era, that his thoughts most fondly turn. "The passing of that great period, the nineties," he muses, "brought to a close a tremendous era, a flowering of all that was most beautiful and elegant in life. We shall not see its like again...
...PADEREWSKI MEMOIRS-Paderewski and Mary Lawton-Scribner...