About Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer, philanthropist, and statesman. As a politician and diplomat, Paderewski was vital to securing international recognition of the newly formed Second Polish Republic in 1919. A musical virtuoso, he rose to prominence as a musician and composer in the late 1880s and toured widely in Europe and the United States. He wrote orchestral, instrumental, and vocal works and an opera, Manru, which remains the only opera by a Polish composer performed by the Metropolitan Opera.
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Awards & Honors
Order of the White Eagle
honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy
Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature
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Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Honorary doctor of the University of Lausanne
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow
Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge
honorary doctorate from Columbia University
Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow
honorary doctor of the University of Southern California
honorary doctor of Yale University
honorary doctor of the Lviv University
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