Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — Paderewski Outwitted Him. [ARTICLE]

Paderewski Outwitted Him.

An Interesting story la told of the minuet which Is perhaps the most popular of all Paderewski’s compositions. Paderewski, while a professor at the Conservatoire of Warsaw, was one evening at the house of the Polish poet, Swieztochowskl, who expressed the opinion that no living composer could compare with Mozart in beauty and simplicity. At the moment Paderewski merely shrugged his shoulders, but the following evening he appeared and asked .permission to play his host a little thing of Mozart's, which perhaps he did not know. He played the minuet. Swieztochowskl was enraptured and cried triumphantly: “Now you must acknowledge that a piece like that could not have been written in our time.” “Well,” said Paderewski, quietly, ‘that happens to be a mlnut composed by me.”