In 1942, Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), the great Polish pianist and composer (and in 1919 prime minister of Poland for one year), was posthumously honoured with a deluxe edition for which many of his friends and pupils, such as Béla Bartók, Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martinu or Jaromír Weinberger, specially composed piano pieces. The limited edition then published by Boosey & Hawkes in New York has been out of print for a long time and is now newly printed.
HOMAGE TO PADEREWSKI - a collection of solo pieces commissioned by Boosey & Hawkes , New York, in honour of the great Polish musician, statesman, patriot and philanthropist, who was known far beyond musical circles - was issued in memoriam owing to his untimely death on 29 June 1941. Sixteen musicians living in the United States accepted ther invitation to contribute a solo piano piece to this volume. The anthology was quickly sold ouyt and is again made available here for thre first time in decades.
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