Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Mazurek, Op.9 . No.4

Allegro ma non troppo. Not bad for the third try I think :) The way I interpreted it is definitely inspired from the way I feel and experience Paderewski's own interpretations of Chopin's and other people's works. Maybe it's wrong to play it like that... But it just makes so much fun to be completely free :)) Paderewski (1860-1941) was a Polish pianist and composer who became a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the new nation's Prime Minister and foreign minister during which he signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I. During World War I, Paderewski advocated an independent Poland, including by touring the United States, where he met with President Woodrow Wilson, who came to support the creation of an independent Poland in his Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, which led to the Treaty of Versailles. He was the third Prime Minister of Poland (18 January 1919 - 27 November 1919) and it shocks me a bit that I did not