Menuet pour piano, op. 14
Minuet · in G major · Op. 14
Ignace Jan Paderewski 1860–1941
G major
Key
Minuet
Form
Tempo di minuetto
Tempo
Op. 14
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Themes & character
Enormously popular·Deliberate 18th century pastiche·By a future prime minister·Composed 1887
At a glance
- Catalogue
- Op. 14
- Key
- G major
- Tempo / character
- Tempo di minuetto
- Form
- Minuet
About the piece
The Minuet in G, first of the six Humoresques de concert, Op. 14, composed in 1887 and subtitled al antico, in the old style. Paderewski wrote it as a deliberate pastiche of an eighteenth century minuet.
It became one of the most popular piano pieces of its era, played in drawing rooms across Europe and America. Its composer went on to a second career remarkable even by musicians' standards, serving as Prime Minister of Poland in 1919 and signing the Treaty of Versailles on his country's behalf.
The composer
Ignace Jan Paderewski
1860–1941
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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