Word: paderewski
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...working his way up the Pacific Coast. In Manhattan such steady oldtimers as Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski, at 74 the world's best-selling pianist, is spending the winter in his villa on Lake Geneva but he hints at a U. S. tour for next year...
Wittgenstein was once a prize pupil of the Master Leschitizky who taught Paderewski. In those days he had two hands. Year after his Viennese debut came the War. Like any loyal 25-year-old Austrian, he went off to fight. On the way to the Russian frontier his right arm was wounded. He lost consciousness, woke up to find himself in a Russian prison camp. He was shunted about behind the lines, spent six months in Siberia before his group was exchanged for Russian prisoners in Austria...
...What two women did most to help Paderewski make his career...
...alone Paderewski has played in over 200 cities, for over 5,000,000 persons, traveled some 360,000 miles in his private car. When the War broke out the U. S. seemed to him the logical place to start a fight for Poland. He gave up the piano for speechmaking, interested Colonel Edward Mandell House who in turn interested Woodrow Wilson...
...Paderewski's diplomacy at Versailles and his struggle to harmonize Poland are matters of history. When for unity's sake he relinquished the premiership, left fighting Josef Pilsudski in command, the world had no idea that it would soon be hearing Paderewski the pianist again. But Paderewski's energy has always been phenomenal and his fortune had been all but lost on Poland...