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Ignace Jan Paderewski Home Movie 1928

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Filmed by Dr. Karol Liszniewski of Cincinnati, as were all the 1920s-1940s videos on this channel. I include these because my father, pianist David Edward Smith, studied piano from the age of 12 (1936) until age 20 (1944) with Dr. Karol Liszniewski of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. My father wrote: "All the Polish celebrities knew Dr. Liszniewski (who speaks Polish besides the Poles?). Arthur Rubinstein and Mieczyslaw often stopped by when they were on tour. So did Rachmaninoff and Paderewski. I would be allowed to sit right next to them--only inches from the keyboard--to watch them practice by the hour--preparing for their solo recitals and concerto performances. They would give me lessons and sometimes, when I was practicing in my room upstairs, they would open the door at the bottom of the stairs and yell such things as 'Practice SLOWLY' or, for example, 'Who told you to do that crescendo in the left hand' (I had done something terrible, no doubt). 'That's good-don't ever change that!' (What a pleasant surprise). Sometimes they would come to my room to watch me practice--stopping me to show better fingering, a more beautiful interpretation, or how to solve some difficult problem 'at hand'. To an artist there is nothing quite so satisfying as the solving of an 'aesthetic problem'."

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  • szacunek i pamięć!

    wspaniały człowiek! doskonały kompozytor!

    a jego menuet g dur to majstersztyk, który przyczynił się do ciekawej sytuacji. Paderewski stworzył go po to, by nabrać swoich przyjaciół. kiedy go zagrał wszyscy byli przekonani, ze to kompozycja mozarta, wręcz byli tego pewni, co się okazało to Ignaś napisał ten utwór. przyjaciele z trudem mu uwierzyli! pozdrawiam!

  • He says;

    " Hi youtubers, it's a real privilege for me to appear here. I hope you like my chateau - you are all welcome to come and stay with me and maybe we can boogie a little."

    Or something like that - I couldn't make out all the words.

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  • @defda94  Thank you! Yes it must have been!

  • @mrsacuhl incredible...!!!!!!!! what an honor.!!

  • ...pt. Menuet mówiąc, że jest to utwór Mozarta. Na głośne wyrazy zachwytu i słowa, że obecnie nikt nie umiałby napisać takiej muzyki, Paderewski odpowiedział: - Owszem, jest taka osoba. Ten utwór napisałem ja sam (...)"

  • Aby ściślej określić zaistniałą w owym czasie sytuację, pozwolę sobie zacytować anegdotę zapisaną w pewnej książce, otóż:

    "Z Paderewskim zaprzyjaźnieni byli dwaj polscy uczeni - prof. T. Chałubiński i A. Świętochowski. W czasie wizyt Paderewskiego w Warszawie prosili oni często mistrza o zagranie jakiegoś utworu Mozarta. Za każdym razem wyrażali swój zachwyt mówiąc, że nikt inny nie mógłby stworzyć tak doskonałej muzyki (...) W czasie jednego spotkania zagrał napisany przez siebie nowy utwór...

  • Piekne...

  • @organmommy Her name was Clara Yechout and she lived in Omaha NE. She was born in 1906 and died Nov of 2003. She taught piano until she was about 88 years old..

  • @mrsacuhl

    That's awesome! Paderewski taught piano to my first piano teacher's piano teacher. I call him my musical great-great grandfather. I wonder what the chances are of your great aunt being the same woman I knew??? I would love to find out!! I played for her once.

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