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...least 50 musicians of the 20th Century have earned a million dollars or more in the course of their careers. So reported Variety last week. Tops of them all-in fact, the greatest musical earner of all times-is the late great Polish pianist, Ignace Jan Paderewski, whose money-making record embraces three firsts: 1) grandest grand total: close to $5,000,000; 2) biggest single season's earnings: $500,000 (for 1922-23); 3) alltime record for a single concert: $33,000 (in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden). Only two other pianists, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann, have topped...
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...
...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...