In 1942, Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), the great Polish pianist andcomposer (and in 1919 prime minister of Poland for one year), was posth umously honoured with a deluxe edition for which many of his friends andpupils, such as Bí©la Bartí_k, Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martinu or Jaromí_ r Weinberger, specially composed piano pieces. The limited edition then published by Boosey & Hawkes in New York has been out of print for a long time and is now newly printed.
