New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-06
4 TALK WITH PADEREUSEL
HE Is AT WORK OK 4 POLISH OPERA.

HE Is AT WORK Ok \ POLISH OPERA.
From the Westminster Budget
Paderewsk has been working on an opera and
one OF The first questions l put to him was con.
Yes" he Rolled Il am very busy it, and
very Interested in my work The libretto is bya
countryman OF my own"
"The subject? And your librettist2"
Polish but he continued smiling Il do not
Tine librettO is by yourself"
"No' he replied quickly 1t is not assure
All the time ! was talking TO him Paderewsk
kept his hand oyer his left eye. but he insisted
1T is little fatigued from writing on my score
nothing more. My arm il is thai gives me some
trouble ne aid and ! am ~, gniy playing no.
May when shall play my own Fantasia for plano
and orchestra at the Flemish Festival However,
! have other cngagements-my rccitais here In
Are you nervous when playing
play ii Is ways tae same. / think every artist
Is: the NEE fact % XII )wins 4 great audience
waits on 'ur labors is enough 10 shake all your
Were You d wunderkind?"
well said Paderawsk. ,houghtfuly. Il sup
was anxious to test the truth Of certain roman
tic stories concernine Padere"sk choice OF career
lie brushed them away at one feI s~oop ,.,
Il was professor q; Warsaw t9nseryat ore
he told me. and had 70 work awfu!ly nart Pre-
vious 10 this had made concert tour n RUSSIA
In Warsaw | gave lessons from morning I'LL night
one day | asked myself why followed such an
arduOus profession and 50 decided 10 20 10 Leone
titsky at Vienna, and become a performer. since
in that way | would work hard few years ana
afterwa,d have life OF ease 10 be ldie, or devote
myself to composition as pleased - -.
Speaking Of the panoforte as an instrument OF
study. Paderewski said: -
1T is at once the easiest and the hardest Any
one can play the panOfOrte. but few ever 90 50
we'll and then only after years and years OF toll
pain and study When you have sIrmounted all
difficulties. not one In a hundred among your az
dience realizes through what labor you have passed
Yet they are all capable Of cr.ticsing and under
standing what your playing should be. Any one
VINO takes up panO-paying with % lew 70 oecom-
ing a professional pianist has taken on himself an
awful burden. But" added the Polish virtuoso.
with A smile. better thai than me druigery OF gy'
ing pianoforte lessons The Ole - only purgatory'
but the Other-hell"
got Paderewski on the G-ostou y schools in re-
gard 10 pianOforte playing. especially tne Buow
school. which may well be called a school OF piano.
forte philosophy.
In my opinion" sail Piierewsk al theoretical
reasoning in panofort- teaching is mistake LOT
when you have reasoned ont an effect you nave lost
THAI over which you reasoned. You must teach me
students 20 fee. Bring iu The bright. cold ight o.
reason. and YOU lose the poetry. 40
"Rubenstein taught and teaches very mucA N ths
fashion. Often when pupil inquired 1 MN TOW LON .
passage should be- playei-so or so-he rep.e J., WY
a. you please. decide that for yourself II me sIn
shines play It this way. n II rains, pay y ~, ,ne
other way Is this what you mean asKed MI
Paderewski r,.
precisely" replied Paderewski. quickly. Therss
must bee no hard and fast rules. Al must oepe"'
on the mood and the atmosphere.