WANDA LOUISE LANDOWSKA (JULY 5, 1879, WARSAW,
POL., RUSSIAN EMPIRE — AUG. 16, 1959, LAKEVILLE, CONN., U.S.)
Polish-born harpsichordist who
helped initiate the revival of the harpsichord in the 20th century. Landowska
studied composition in Berlin in 1896, and in 1900 she went to Paris. There,
influenced by her husband, Henry Lew, an authority on folklore, she researched
early music and keyboard instruments. She taught at the Schola Cantorum
(established 1894), first played the harpsichord in public in 1903, and in 1909
published, with her husband, Musique ancienne, a study of 17th- and
18th-century music. She remained until the beginning of World War II the
principal exponent of 17th- and 18th-century harpsichord music, particularly
that of Johann Sebastian Bach and François Couperin, on whose works she wrote
several studies. In 1925 she founded a school for the study of early music at
Saint-Leu-La-Forêt, near Paris, and in 1941 settled in the United States. Among
the modern works she inspired were the harpsichord concerti of Manuel de Falla
and Francis Poulenc. Her collected writings may be found in Landowska on Music
(1965; edited by Denise Restout).
TRACKLIST
1. 962 WELTE-MIGNON
SCHUBERT-LANDOWSKA - Walzerkette (Chain of Waltzes)
2. 963 WELTE-MIGNON CHOPIN -
Waltz, Op. 64, No. 1, Db “Minute”
3. 964 WELTE-MIGNON CHOPIN -
Waltz, Op. 69, No. 2, b
4. 965 WELTE-MIGNON
BERLIOZ-LANDOWSKA - Danse des sylphs fr “La Damnation de Faust”
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