The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-15
PADEREWSK| WILL
Be HERE APRIL |
IS Now on His Seventh Tour
To Music Centers in
America.
life OF FAMOUS ARTIST.
HIS CAREER HAS BEEN ONE OF
NOTE AND EVENTS OF HIS LIFE
ARE iNTERESTING-IS ALSO A
COMPOSER.

Ii is said that Poland found in mu-
SIC revenge for oppression and dismem-
berment. II might also be said that
when the fair land Of Poland was
poughed by the hOOf Of the ruthless
invader" a crop Of pianists sprang up
to maintain the glory Of the old estate.
Poland may we'll be proud Of her com
posers. Chopin said the last word in
piano music TschaikoWshy, the
greatest name III more modern instru-
mental music. was of Polish descent.
Eembrich and the de RcsZlscS are Poles.
The list of pianists includes Chopin.
LeSchettitzki, MOSzkOWskY, SliVlnSki
and Josef Hofmann. And from Po-
land comes the most commanding in
diyiduality among Firtuosos since Pa
Eanini. Jan Ignace PadercWskt.
PadereWski Was born November g.
aS'O i'll KuryloWka in POdOlia. prov
ince of Russian Poland. His father
suspected of patriotism, was in 1Sti'.
banished to Siberia. whence he return
II Is said that Paderewski inherited
his genius from his mother who died
when he was a child. He exhibited
great talent at an early age. but he
had little real training until, as II
Youth, he went to Warsaw and studied
the piano under Janotha and harm my
under Roguski. His first concert
do bap ba Giy n
Russia. and we have it on his own au
thority that he played his own compo-
sitions and those of other people; but
everything he played was really his
own, for he did not know music and
had SO little technique that when he
came to a hard place he improvised to
fill up the gap. incidentally, this tour
was made in the winter and he had SO
few clothes that he was cold most of
the time.
He returned to Warsaw. determined
10 be a composer rather than a pianist,
and in 1879 was made professor in the
Warsaw Conservatory. He married
Rose Hassal, a Polish girl, and their
short life together was one of priva
ton and love. She died at the end of
II year. leaving him a son, Hippolyte,
who died in 1901. After his wife's
death, Paderewski devoted himself en-
tirely to his art.
His debut was made in Vienna in
1887. In the spring of 1883 he played
in Berlin. Paris and London. In Lon
don his first recital was a failure, but
with the second began that long series
of triumphs which have not their par
alle1 in the history of music.
His name began to be heard in
America. 4 little Mozartean minuet
which he had written as joke became
familiar to every professional and am
hteur in this country and the public
was in n measure prepared for him
when he made his first appearance in
America in Carnegie Hall, New York,
on November il, 1891. The critics
shook their heads. Here was some
thing unusual and they were not quite
sure. But with the public there was
no doubt After the Carnegie Hall
concert he started to give a series OF
recitals in the Concert Hall of Madi-
son Square Garden, but was soon fore
Cd to return to the larger hall in or
der to accommodate all those who
wished to hear him.
In that tour, in the space of six
months he gave one hundred and sew,
enteen concerts. Returning the fol
lowing season he gave sixty-seven in
twenty-six cities and the gross re.
ceipts of these amounted to over
$4,000. Equally successful tours he
made in this country in 1896, 1900
1902 and 1905. In these tours he has
visited nearly every city of importance
In the country and his favor with the
public has, If anything, increased.
In the summer of 1901 he went tc
Australia for the first time. spending
the spring of the following year In
America. Each spring he gives g