More than half of his songs are settings of French poems by Catulle Mend?.  
His only opera was based on a novel called A Cabin Outside the Village, and deals with the tragic love of a peasant girl and a gypsy.  His only symphony is a B minor work which calls for three sarussophones, and may be the only major symphony to use that instrument.  More than half of his songs are settings of French poems by Catulle Mend?.  He used folk music of his homeland's Tatra mountain people for an early piano collection and again for the "Gypsy March" in the opera Manru.  His violin sonata Six Humoresques de Concert contains a popular Minuet in G, while his lone choral piece is "Hey, White Eagle," which became an independence anthem.  FTP, name this pianist and composer who spent three years editing a complete edition of Chopin, decades after his one-year term as Prime Minister of Poland.
His only opera was based on a novel called A Cabin Outside the Village, and deals with the tragic love of a peasant girl and a gypsy.  
Ignacy Jan Paderewski