Padlewska Nadzieja, Nadieżda, nee Bieriestieniew, *17 May 1882 Słuck, †7 October 1967 Katowice, Polish pianist and teacher of Russian origin. In 1908, she graduated from the conservatory in St. Petersburg in the class of Z. Małoziomowa. In 1908–10, she completed her piano studies with L. Godowski in Berlin and Vienna. After returning to Moscow, she married Leon Padlewski, a bacteriologist, and later a professor at universities in Yekaterinoslav and Poznań. She combined her concert activities with teaching work in Moscow (1911–14), Yekaterinoslav (conservatory professor in 1919–22) and Poznań, where she ran a private music school in 1922–39. She gave recitals and performed at concerts at the Philharmonic Hall and the Polskie Radio station in Poznań and Warsaw. During World War II, she gave concerts in B. Woytowicz’s café in Warsaw. After the death of her husband (1943) and sons (Jerzy, an architect, Home Army counterintelligence officer, executed in 1943 in a prison in Berlin, and Roman, killed in 1944 in the Warsaw Uprising), Padlewska left in 1945 for Katowice, where she devoted herself mainly to teaching; she taught piano classes at the PSM (until 1950), PŚSM (1945–52) and PWSM (1950–59). Padlewska’s repertoire included works by Chopin and Russian composers; closing 50 years of artistic activity, she performed F. Chopin’s Concerto in F minor at the anniversary concert at the Silesian Philharmonic (25 October 1957), and A. Glazunov’s Piano Sonata on TVP.
