Download or read book Paderewski and His Art written by Henry Theophilus Finck and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pocket Paderewski written by Michael Moran and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From silent cinema pianist born in the Australian Bush to celebrity virtuoso entertaining Royalty in Mayfair--an extraordinarily magical and inspirational musical odyssey. The concert pianist Edward Cahill (1885-1975) rose to prominence from humble beginnings in the inauspicious setting of 19th-century rural Queensland. At a time when Australian concert artists were virtually unknown in Europe, he dazzled the salons of royalty, aristocratic patronage and privilege in London, Paris and the French Riviera during the glittering decades of the 1920s and 1930s ... 'With what vigour, what virtuosity and poetry this master plays the piano!' --Chronique musicale, Montreux, 5 May 1939
Download or read book Paderewski written by Adam Zamoyski and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Adam Zamoyski's book on Paderewski.. is a shrewd and lively account, the first solidly informed and reliable one, of a life that almost constitutes the last gasp of 1848 and its Romantic revolution... Paderewski brought off the very difficult feat of starting as Wunderkind and ending as grand old man, and Adam Zamoyski's biography does definitive justice to both sides.'Norman Stone, The Times Literary Supplement Hailed as a genius and national hero, likened to Einstein and Gandhi, Paderewski rose from provincial obscurity to become the most famous pianist in history - the twentieth century's first superstar - as well as Prime Minister of Poland. For more than fifty years, until his death in 1941, he was a household name, and all over the world "Paddymania" was rife. Audiences swooned - at least a dozen ladies had to be "carried out in a fainting condition" when he performed in Edinburgh in 1894; he was mobbed in Paris, London and all over America, besieged with love letters and proposals of marriage. Critics eulogized - James Huneker found his playing "totally overwhelming", and even George Bernard Shaw admitted that Paderewski's musical "intelligence" permitted him to seize ten nuances in a composition for every one the average pianist picked out. Advertisers swore by him; the press explored minutest details of his life. Heads of state received him - he played for Queen Victoria at Windsor, and for Woodrow Wilson at the White House; he was admired by politicians from Lloyd George to Mussolini, by artists from Conrad to Burne-Jones and Saint-Saëns. Why then, after his death, did Paderewski come to be largely forgotten? Adam Zamoyski sets out not only to reassess Paderewski's achievements, but to revive, with the help of new research, the astonishing story of his life. It is a story with elements of both the fairy tale and the melodrama, in which - despite the trials of his early life, his chaotic musical education, his tragic first marriage, and the initial hostility of audiences and critics - Paderewski's fanatical ambition to "do something for Poland" drives him to unprecedented success. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, Zamoyski unravels facts from the legends that grew up around the pianist-statesman. He clarifies Paderewski's extreme personality, his complex romantic life, his musical and political careers; and above all he attempts to solve the mystery of his undeniable, irresistible power. 'Zamoyski ... has written a very readable and well researched account of a man who, despite massive success and a private life with more than its share of tragedy, never lost his sense of humour. It is a romantic story and the author tells it well.' The Literary Review 'The portrait of the elderly Paderewski, after his resignation, living in Switzerland surrounded by a bevy of adoring women, is particularly convincing - and very sad.' The Financial Times 'Adam Zamoyski has unearthed from many sources the true story of this remarkable man's achievements. Paderewski lives again in his immaculate phrasing and his entire life is examined in meticulous and rewarding detail.' Eastern Daily Press 'This is an excellent book for the general reader, and full of valuable sign-posts for specialists who want to follow up the amazing story in greater detail.' The Sunday Telegraph
Download or read book Wagner and the Wonder of Art written by M. Owen Lee and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell. Toscanini wanted to lay his baton down for the last time only after he had conducted a performance of it. Paderewski called it 'the greatest work of genius ever achieved by any artist in any field of human endeavour.' H.L. Mencken declared, 'It took more skill to plan and write it than it took to plan and write the whole canon of Shakespeare.' And yet Wagner's many-splendoured comedy has come under severe criticism in recent years for what has been called its 'dark underside,' its 'fascist brutality,' and its 'ugly anti-Semitism.' In Wagner and the Wonder of Art, renowned opera expert M. Owen Lee addresses that criticism. He also provides an introduction to the opera and an analysis that will surprise even those veteran operagoers who may not have explored the work's intricate structure and the emotional drama at its centre. The book includes the on-air commentary that Father Lee gave during the first radio broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera after the events of 9/11. He thought it necessary, after attempting to refute the charges leveled against Wagner's opera, to say something about its truthfulness, its life-affirming music, its insight into the madness that can destroy human lives, and its witness to the importance of art for the survival of our civilizations.
Download or read book The Art of the Piano written by David Dubal and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4936.
Download or read book Ignaz Jan Paderewski written by Edward Algernon Baughan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible biography of Polish pianist and composer Ignaz Jan Paderewski (1860 – 1941). He became a spokesman for Polish independence, and in 1919, he was the new nation's Prime Minister and foreign minister. He signed the Treaty of Versailles during this period, which ended World War I. This work was an essential addition to the literature on music and focused mainly on Paderewski's musical career. Contents include: Early Life From Warsaw to Paris His Début in London In America Later Tours Personal Traits His Views on Music and Teaching As Pianist As Composer
Download or read book Paderewski the Story of a Modern Immortal written by Charles Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Chopin with Cherries written by Maja Trochimczyk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of contemporary poetry celebrates the 200th birth anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849). The volume presents 123 poems by 92 poets, including: Sharon Chmielarz, T. S. Eliot, Charles Ades Fishman, Linda Nemec Foster, Emily Fragos, John Z. Guzlowski, Lola Haskins, Oriana Ivy, Lois P. Jones, Leonard Kress, Emma Lazarus, Marie Lecrivain, Jeffrey Levine, Amy Lowell, Rick Lupert, Mira N. Mataric, Elisabeth Murawski, Ruth Nolan, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, William Pillin, Russell Salamon, Katrin Talbot, Mark Tardi, Devi Walders, Kath Abela Wilson, and others. The book is illustrated with vintage Chopin postcards and includes one translation - of "Chopin's Piano" by Norwid. The editor, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, is a Polish-American poet, music historian, photographer, and translator. She published four books on music, two books of poetry, and hundreds of articles and poems.
Download or read book From Poland with Music written by Marlena Wieczorek and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive publication on Polish literature to explore the theme of emigration among composers from the 20th and 21st centuries. From Poland with Music: 100 Years of Polish Composers Abroad (1918–2018) is the first comprehensive treatment of the theme of emigration among Polish composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The book focuses on classical composers (e.g. Paderewski, Weinberg, Panufnik), but extends to important figures from the worlds of jazz and film music (Komeda, Makowicz, Kaczmarek, Korzeniowski). The first part of the book contains a series of essays on overarching themes related to the Polish musical diaspora, while the second part comprises an engaging collection of interviews with experts concerning the life and legacy of selected composers, with revealing insights into the artists’ personalities and entertaining anecdotes from their lives. Ignacy Jan Paderewski was not only an outstanding pianist and composer, but also the prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of free Poland in 1919. Bronisław Kaper was the first Polish composer to win an Oscar in 1954 for Lili, and Henryk Wars scored 60 projects for Columbia, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, MGM, United Artists and Paramount. From Poland with Music recalls all of these stories, revealing just how impactful Polish composers have been on the international music scene in the last 100 years.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE VILLAGER written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ignaz Jan Paderewski written by Edward Algernon Baughan and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Piano written by David Rowland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the piano, one of the world's most popular instruments.
Download or read book Performing Music in the Age of Recording written by Robert Philip and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era? What is the impact of recordings on the lives of musicians? In this wide-ranging book, Robert Philip extends the scope of his earlier pioneering book, "Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance 1900-1950." Philip here considers the interaction between music-making and recording throughout the entire twentieth century. The author compares the lives of musicians and audiences in the years before recordings with those of today. He examines such diverse and sometimes contentious topics as changing attitudes toward freedom of expression, the authority of recordings made by or approved by composers, the globalization of performing styles, and the rise of the period instrument movement. Philip concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of the future of classical music performance.
Download or read book The Lion of Poland written by Ruth Fox Hume and published by Bethlehem Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignace Jan Paderewski was born in Poland in November, 1860. At his death in 1940, he was honored by burial in the Arlington Cemetery. As a boy, young Ignace saw repeated Polish rebellions against the controlling foreign powers fail. He determines that the way to help Poland become free and united is for him to become a person of renown-somehow! His vast natural instinct for music unexpectedly opens a door. Though he excels in musical theory and composition, his dream of becoming a concert pianist is continually thwarted by poor advice and instruction. Then, in 1884, displaying the exceptional gift that recurs throughout his lifetime-of meeting the right person at the right time-Ignace starts on the path to becoming a virtuoso pianist at the unheard of age of 24! By 1910, after taking the world by storm through his brilliance as a performer and popularity as a man of humility, warmth and appeal, Ignace begins his incredible career as statesman. It is now that his lifetime of meeting, winning and helping others comes to the fore, granting him vital influence among political figures and situations of his day. Here is an absorbing portrait, full of lively and illuminating incident, observations from contemporaries and matter for reflection, of a man who was aptly called "a genius who happens to play the piano." Historical Insight article by Daria SockeyLocation: Poland and the U.S.Time Period: Modern Era, WW1
