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November 18
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1836 William Schwenck Gilbertwas born. He was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado.
In 1860 Ignacy Jan Paderewski was born. He was a Polish pianist and composer, politician and spokesman for Polish independence. He was a favourite of concert audiences around the world. His musical fame opened access to diplomacy and the media. He was the Prime Minister of Poland and also Poland's foreign minister in 1919, and represented Poland at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
GILBERT (Sir William Schwenk, 1836-1911, Librettist of Gilbert & Sullivan)
Final page of an an Autograph Letter Signed “present at rehearsal - if you care to adopt my suggestion, will Wednesday morning at 11, here, suite you ...” or they could meet at the Savoy, 1 side 8vo., no place, no date, top edge repaired
38665
[PADEREWSKI (Ignace Jan, 1860-1941, Polish Pianist and Composer, Prime Minister of Poland, 1919)]
Booklet advertising his ‘Piano Compositions’, with a good introduction about his piano pieces “which exhibit little of the sensational elements usually associated with ... virtuosi” but are “musicianly in the extreme”, an opening page for each of 12 pieces, graded from Moderately to Very Difficult (his Polonaise in F sharp major), and his portrait on the cover, 16 sides 8vo., London, Edwin Ashdown, no date, circa 1910
56172
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