Word: paderewskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mme. Antonina Paderewska Wilkonska, 83, only sister of the late, great Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...
Left. By the late Ignace Jan Paderewski: a net estate of $35,000, in New York County. No will has yet been found...
Like the best-beloved of fiddlers, Fritz Kreisler, the best-beloved of pianists hated the radio. A Paderewski recital was something to see as well as hear. Even when he was past his prime, showering wrong notes in capricious rhythms, he sat, leonine and imperious, flailed and rippled at the keyboard with his stubby $50,000 fingers. He was lavish with encores, modulating continuously from one piece into the next, sometimes for as long as an hour...
...Said Paderewski: "When I miss practice one day, I know it; when I miss two days, my wife knows it; when I miss three days, the public knows it." When Paderewski practiced, he had no peer, and only the late, mighty Liszt and Rubinstein ever equaled him at a piano...
Died. Ignace Jan Paderewski, 80, the most famed pianist of his time; in Manhattan...