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Ignace Jan Paderewski

Ignace Jan Paderewski

Born: 18th November 1860, Kurylivka, Ukraine

Died: 29th June 1941, New York, New York, USA

Nationality: Polish

Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer and politician who was a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the nation's prime minister and foreign minister during which he signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I.

A favorite of concert audiences around the world, his musical fame opened access to diplomacy and the media, as possibly did his status as a freemason, and charitable work of his second wife, Helena Paderewska.

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