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Title: Ignace Jan Paderewski papers,
Date (inclusive): 1687-1983
Collection Number: 75017
Origination:
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941
Collection Size:
10 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 album box, 2 envelopes, memorabilia
((5.7 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, clippings, printed matter, and photographs, relating primarily to the establishment
of an independent Polish state, the Paris Peace Conference, Polish politics in the interwar period, the occupation of Poland
during World War II, and the musical career of I. J. Paderewski.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
Polish,
English, and
French
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item] Igancy Jan Paderewski papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1975.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
| 1860 Nov. 6 | Born, Kurylowka, Podolia, Ukraine |
| 1872 | Studied music, Warsaw Conservatory |
| 1876 | Taught piano, Warsaw Conservatory |
| 1880 | Married Antonina Korsak, who died a year later |
| 1882 | Studied in Berlin under Friedrich Kiel |
| 1884-1887 | Studied in Vienna under Theodor Leschetizky Taught at Strasbourg Conservatory |
| 1887-1891 | Made first public appearances as a pianist in Vienna, Paris, London, and New York |
| 1893 | Composed "The Polish Fantasia" for piano and orchestra (Opus 19) |
| 1896 | Established the Paderewski Fund in support of musical compositions in the United States |
| 1898 | Settled in Riond-Bosson near Morges, Switzerland |
| 1899 | Married Helena Gorska |
| 1901 | Composed the opera Manru |
| 1909 | Director, Warsaw Conservatory |
| 1910 | Presented the City of Krakow with a monument commemorating the victory of the Poles over the Teutonic Order upon the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald |
| 1915 | Member and representative to the United States, General Committee for Polish Relief (organized in Switzerland in January) |
| 1917 | Member and representative to the United States, Polish National Committee; frequently urged Woodrow Wilson to include Poland in his Fourteen Points |
| 1919 | Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Poland; delegate, Paris Peace Conference |
| Resigned November 27 and returned to Riond-Bosson | |
| 1920 | Delegate plenipotentiary of Poland to the League of Nations |
| 1921 | Resumed musical career in Europe and the United States |
| 1938 | Author (with Mary Lawton), The Paderewski Memoirs |
| 1939 | President, Polish National Council (Rada Narodowa) of the Polish Government-in-Exile, Paris |
| 1940 | Left Europe for the United States |
| 1941 June 29 | Died, New York City |