Question: The Minuet in G, Op. 14/1, is a short piano composition by which Polish pianist and composer, politician and spokesman for Polish independence?
Context: Central National Committee (Polish: "Komitet Centralny Narodowy (KCN)") was the underground coordinating committee of the Polish independence movement in 1860's Congress Poland which was responsible for preparing a general uprising against Tsarist rule in order to reestablish Polish independence, lost after the Partitions of Poland.  It represented the "Red", left wing, faction in the independence movement, which emphasized an end to serfdom without compensation to landlords as a necessary component of the Polish national struggle, as opposed to the "White" faction which advocated more moderate social reforms, while also supporting Polish independence. Eugeniusz Knapik (born July 9, 1951 in Ruda Śląska) is a Polish pianist and composer of classical music best known for his 1980 chamber piece String Quartet No. 1.  Knapik studied composition and piano with Henryk Górecki (1933–2010) and Czesław Stańczyk at the University of Music in Katowice.  Later, he studied composition under Olivier Messiaen in Paris under a French government scholarship.  As a pianist he has recorded widely, specialising mainly in 20th-century music.  He has won numerous prizes for his compositions, including at the Festival of Polish Piano Interpretation in Słupsk, and the International Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, known as the Waldstein , is one of the three most notable sonatas of his middle period (the other two being the "Appassionata", Op. 57, and "Les Adieux", Op. 81a).  Completed in summer 1804 and surpassing Beethoven's previous piano sonatas in its scope, the "Waldstein " is a key early work of Beethoven's "Heroic" decade (1803–1812) and set a standard for piano composition in the grand manner. Stanisław Drzewiecki (born 1987) is a Polish pianist and composer.  His parents are Russian pianist Tatiana Shebanova and Polish pianist Jarosław Drzewiecki.  Drzewiecki began playing the piano aged four and made his first stage appearance aged five.  In 2000 he won the Eurovision Young Musicians competition. Roman Stanisław Dmowski (9 August 1864 – 2 January 1939) was a Polish politician, statesman, and co-founder and chief ideologue of the right-wing National Democracy ("ND": in Polish, ""Endecja"") political movement.  He saw the aggressive Germanization of Polish territories controlled by the German Empire as the major threat to Polish culture and therefore advocated a degree of accommodation with another power that had partitioned Poland, the Russian Empire.  He favored the re-establishment of Polish independence by nonviolent means, and supported policies favorable to the Polish middle class.  During World War I, in Paris, through his Polish National Committee he was a prominent spokesman, to the Allies, for Polish aspirations.  He was a principal figure instrumental in the postwar restoration of Poland's independent existence. Ignacy Jan Paderewski, GBE (] ; 18 November [O.S. 6 November] 1860  – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist and composer, politician and spokesman for Polish independence.  He was a favorite of concert audiences around the world.  His musical fame opened access to diplomacy and the media. The Minuet in G, Op. 14/1, is a short piano composition by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, which became world-famous, overshadowing his more major works such as the Symphony in B minor "Polonia", the Piano Concerto in A minor, and the opera "Manru".  The John Philip Sousa band performed a transcription of the piece in Rochester, NY on November 12, 1894.  (Warfield 2011, p. 310). "A Maiden's Prayer" (original Polish title: "Modlitwa dziewicy " Op.  4, French: "La prière d'une vierge ") is a composition of Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834–1861), which was published in 1856 in Warsaw, and then as a supplement to the "" in 1859.  The piece is a medium difficulty short piano piece for intermediate pianists.  Some have liked it for its charming and romantic melody; others have described it as "sentimental salon tosh."  The pianist and academic Arthur Loesser described it as "this dowdy product of ineptitude." Twenty-four Pieces for Children (also "24 Pieces for Children"), Op. 25, is a 1936 romantic piano composition written in all twenty-four major and minor tonalities by Ukrainian pianist and composer Viktor Kosenko.  Naturally treated with techniques of folk polyphony, it was published as Op. 15 in 1938, but later corrected by the publisher of his collection Musiczna Ukraina.  It is still an obligatory set of compositions specifically for children learning the piano in conservatoires and piano schools across the country by holding a significant place in today's Ukrainian pedagogical repertoire as one of the most popular collections for children. Jan Kwapiński (1885–1964), born Piotr Chałupka was a Polish independence activist, politician and statesman.  Member of Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party, imprisoned by Russian Empire authorities in Warsaw Citadel.  After Poland regained independence following the First World War, member of Polish parliament (Sejm) after being elected in Polish legislative election, 1922 and mayor of Łódź (1939).  After Soviet invasion of Poland arrested by NKVD, freed after Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, he joined the London-based Polish government-in-exile as Vice-Premier and Minister of Industry, Trade and Shipping, later Minister of Treasury.
Answer: Ignacy Jan Paderewski