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Paderewski

American  
[pah-de-ref-ski, pad-uh-ref-skee, -rev-] / ˌpɑ dɛˈrɛf skɪ, ˌpæd əˈrɛf ski, -ˈrɛv- /

noun

  1. Ignace or Ignacy Jan 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.


Paderewski British  
/ padɛˈrɛfski /

noun

  1. Ignace Jan (iɲas jan). 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, and statesman; prime minister (1919)

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The groups received the grants from the so-called Patriot Fund run by the Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski Institute for the Heritage of National Thought which is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2021

It’s understandable that Polish pianist, patriot and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski would get a statue from his native Poland, even though he died in New York.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2020

To catch them all, you needed to be able to play the remote control like Paderewski.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2017

B�sendorfers have been owned by such masters as Anton Rubinstein, Gustav Mahler, Ignace Paderewski and more recently by B�la Bartok and Frank Sinatra.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were Paderewski, Houdini, Tesla, Edison, Joplin, Darrow, a Princeton professor named Woodrow Wilson, and a sweet old lady in black summer silk flowered with forget-me-not-blue named Susan B. Anthony.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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