The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-30
Ignace Paderewski Of World Fame Is Dead
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there was considerable doubt that the war was the reason for his rnu- Sical retirement. At hls last major appearance, in New York, Feb. 26, 1889, in e program broadcast to . worldwide radio audience estimas ted at 5000, 900, 1t was all too ap. parent that his palSied hands had lost the touch of genius.
 Last Great Success
 His film debut in Moonlight Sonata" two years earlier, in which he played c 3O.niinute recital fea. turing the Beethoven composition for which the Aim was named, and his own "Minuet," was Paderew. skis last outstanding success.
 He outlived his triumphS both as pianist and patriot. When he returned by steamer from Portugal last November G. his 80th birthday, he handed out Q typewriter State- ment expressing his anguish for the lost Polish cause.
 everybody knows that my poor nation Is being systematically OK. terminated, that millions have been robbed, expelled from their homes, or deported to die in concentra- ton camps" 1t said.
 He lived just long enough to see Poland once more become . battle- ground for the German and Rus. sian armies which two years ago seized and divided 1t.
 Paderewski was known for 60 years as the greatest pianist of his time. An earlier generation of Americans, who witnessed the height of his career, remembered him as 6 virtuoso with shaggy hair, Leonine countenance, dropping, by. ronic collars and Q suave manner that caused women in the pre-. World War days to storm his cons certs and shower him with flowers.
 Earned sio,ooo,oOo N
 He earned an estimated 9l0,000,. 900 in music and spent much of 1t in the cause of Poland.
 He was born Nov. 6, 1880, the day Abraham Lincoln was elected presl- dent the first time, in the small province of Podolia, a region then suffering much from the oppression of the Russian Czars. He was three years old, and learning to pick out melodies on the piano with one fin- ger, when the Polish rebellion broke out. Cossacks killed his mother, jailed his father, carried his mater. nal grandfather away to oblivion in Siberia, and blighted the infant prodigy's life with brutal memories.
 At seven he was given Q plano teacher. He went to the Conserva- tory of Russia and studied under such great masters as Junotha and Roguski. Later at Berlin he studied under Friedrich Kiel, then made c concert tour of Poland and Russia and finally became a teacher at the Conservatory of Warsaw at the age of i8.
 At 27 he made his professional debut in Vienna, continued to Par- is, London, and, in 1897, to New York.
 He had married ct the age of 18 and his girl-wife had died in child birth year later. The Baroness De Rosen, whom he married in 1899, died at their home near Morges, Switzerland, in 1884.
 Launched Polish Campaign
 Paderewski's fame in America was firmly established when the out break of the World War gave him the opportunity to launch his Polish nationalist campaign. Presid en t Wilson was sympathetic and Pader- ewski settled in Washington to serve as spokesman for a group of patriots agitating for the creation of an independent Poland after the war. The campaign succeeded, Pad- erewski went to Warsaw a national hero in December, 1918. He came Premier of the first Polish govern. ment and his signature was affixed to the Treaty of Versailles.
 A dispute with Marshal Pilsudski. Polish military leader, soon sent Paderewski into exile in Switzer. land, to take no further part in Po- fish politics until the outbreak of this war, when he went to France to become president of the assem- ply of the Polish government in exile.
 With the fall of France the exile