Paderewski plays Liszt La Campanella

Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) - Although discouraged by his teachers from becoming a pianist, he launched his artistic career in 1885 and literally swept the world with his playing and his dynamic personality. - In 1932 American president Roosevelt called him a Modern Immortal and two years later in a book written by author Charles Phillips, The Story of a Modern Immortal, the introduction began as follows, “It is difficult to write of Paderewski without emotion. Statesman, orator, pianist and com