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	Wanda Landowska
		Landowska acquired many old instruments and soon began touring with the Pleyels made for her own use, incorporating the best features of what had been examined amongst the museum instruments, capable of adapting to serve the entire literature, as well as new works written for her by Poulenc, Falla, Rieti and others.
		Landowska's home in Saint-Leu became a center for the study and performance of old music, a rare experiment in a Paris dominated by an inflexible Conservatoire which primarily concerned with virtuosity.
		Wanda was inching around the wall and found a piano, which was a small upright, dirty as could be.
	www.arbiterrecords.com /musicresourcecenter/landowska.html (4170 words)

	Wanda Landowska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wanda Landowska (July 5, 1879 – August 16, 1959), harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of that instrument in the early 20th century.
		Landowska was born in Warsaw, where her father was a lawyer, and her mother a linguist who translated Mark Twain into Polish.
		When Germany invaded France, Landowska, a naturalized French citizen of Jewish origin, escaped with her assistant and companion Denise Restout, leaving Saint-Leu in 1940, sojourning in southern France, and finally sailing from Lisbon to the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wanda_Landowska (426 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Landowska, Wanda
		Wanda Landowska, a member of Natalie Clifford Barney's famed lesbian salon, was almost single-handedly responsible for the revival of the harpsichord as a performance instrument in the twentieth century.
		Landowska's fame grew quickly, and in 1903 she gave her first public performance on the harpsichord, an instrument that, by the nineteenth century, was considered "feeble" in its dynamics and rendered obsolete by the piano.
		Landowska ferociously championed its use through her performances and writings; she commissioned the construction of new harpsichords; and, in 1913, she returned to Berlin to establish a class devoted to the instrument at the Hochschule für Musik.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/landowska_w.html (793 words)

	Wanda Landowska
		One of the many debts of gratitude we owe to Wanda Landowska is for her having viewed music as a continuum rather than a progressing art ever perfecting itself.
		This is an urgent matter as she is compelled to teach daily to maintain herself, unable to devote all her efforts to produce a biography of Landowska and edit her unpublished writings and correspondence.
		Wanda once had quite an experience when she first came to Paris because she used to buy her music in a store, and one day the [proprietor] told her that he just acquired a very special instrument from an exhibition in Paris in 1900, so she went to see it.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/landowska.html (4170 words)

	A Short History of Harpsichord Playing in Hungary
		The twentieth-century revival of the harpsichord was associated with the name Wanda Landowska from the earliest years of the century onward (with the possible exception of Violet Gordon Woodhouse in England).
		Landowska's students who carried on her teaching were Eta Harich-Schneider in Germany, Silvia Kind in Switzerland, Ruggero Gerlin in Italy and Ralph Kirkpatrick in the United States, though the latter as her opponent.
		Wanda Landowska visited Budapest in the early 1930s and gave a recital at the so-called Town Theatre.
	jsebestyen.org /history.html (2012 words)

	Wanda Landowska: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wanda Landowska (July 5, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Landowska was born in Warsaw Warsaw quick summary:
		A number of important new works were written for her: Manuel de Falla[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject]'s El retablo de maese Pedro marked the return of the harpsichord to the modern orchestra.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/wanda_landowska.htm (1211 words)

	That Crown of Thorns
		Landowska's presentiment of agony must have been a consequence more of what was said than how.
		While it is possible that Landowska could have been acquainted with the Crucigeros canon, she could not possibly have known of is consanguineous origin with respect to the Goldberg cycle itself.
		Landowska's insight is easily adduced by likening it to the canon for which the composer himself provides an iconological referent.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/crownofthorns.html (1766 words)

	Wanda Louise Landowska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Landowska, Wanda Louise (1879-1959), Polish pianist, harpsichordist, and teacher, born in Warsaw, and educated at the Warsaw Conservatory.
		In 1925, after teaching in Germany and Switzerland, Landowska settled in a Paris suburb, where she founded a school and concert hall that became an important center of musical activity.
		Although her main interest was in the keyboard music of the 17th and 18th centuries, she inspired modern composers to write for the harpsichord, among them the French composer Francis Poulenc and the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/landowsk.html (166 words)

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		LANDOWSKA, a documentary by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Diane Pontius.
		Actual footage of Landowska recitals and interviews are interspersed by interviews with admirers, students, record producers, mus- icologists, harsichordists, editors, curators, and harpsichord makers.Denise Restout, Landowska’s long-time student and companion, plays the role of narrator throughout, adding nostalgic anecdotes and interesting sidebars to the straightforward presentation of Landowska’s career.
		Wanda Landowska started playing the piano at age 3, and being the child of well-to-do parents who wanted her to succeed, they encouraged her love of music, especially Bach and Mozart, whom Landowska had a lifelong passion for.
	www.continuo.com /april98/landrev.htm (529 words)

	landowska: Artist Wanda Landowska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wanda Landowska (1879-1959) One of the many debts of gratitude we owe to Wanda Landowska is for her having viewed music as a continuum rather than a progressing art ever perfecting itself.
		gratitude we owe to Wanda Landowska is for her.
		Wanda Landowska, a member of Natalie Clifford Barney's famed lesbian salon, was almost single-handedly responsible for the revival of the harpsichord as a performance instrument in the.
	www.newkidhomevideo.com /landowska.html (191 words)

	PAKM004: The Scarlatti Sonata Society Recordings - D. Scarlatti
		Wanda Landowska (left) was born in Poland in 1879, lived for many years in France before fleeing the Nazis in 1940, and eventually settled in the USA until her death in 1959.
		Clearly Landowska had a huge input in the recording - she was, after all, one of the foremost experts in the field - and contributed not just performances, but (as we have read) made her own personal selection of pieces, and wrote the delightful sleevenotes.
		Landowska's individuality shines out through all of these recordings - a review of an earlier transfer of her Scarlatti recordings states that her "playing has more character than most other harpsichord players put together".
	www.pristineaudiodirect.com /LargeWorks/Keyboard/PAKM004.php (891 words)

	Classical Net - J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Performances - Book I from Landowska
		Although a few folks consider Landowska's Bach a relic of the past, there can be no doubt that she fully identified with Bach's idiom and gave Bach enthusiasts some outstanding live and recorded performances.
		Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor – The depth delivered by Landowska in the Prelude is very impressive and fully conveys the bitter/sweet nature of the music.
		Prelude and Fugue in F major – Joyfully and incisively performed by Landowska, her climax in the Prelude is thrilling to behold.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/articles/bachjs/keyboard/wtc/landowska1-1.html (1150 words)

	Wanda Landowska = Dances of Poland & A Treasury of Harpsichord Music - Testament
		Contemporary musicians sarcastically called the harpsichord a cage of flies, but Landowska's application of mazurka and polonaise rhythm and her innate nobility of line do much to lift the thick-blooded Pleyel into the musical ether.
		The Landowska rendition enjoys both scale and elan, a muscular energy and directness of attack that can only be called symphonic.
		The source of half of the recordings (RCA LM 1217) are from 1946 sessions; the Dances of Poland derive from 1951 inscriptions made in honor of the tenth anniversary of the death of Ignaz Jan Paderewski.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1217 (811 words)

	Heaven Tree: Vivaldi, Folia, Kota, Landowska, Purcell, Fado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wanda Landowska, Landowska on Music, collected, edited and translated by Denise Restout, her companion of the last 26 years of her life
		Wanda Landowska is a legendary figure in music.
		Landowska was also full of charm and wit and polish and curious, wonderful insights, and all of them are in Landowska on Music.
	heaventree.blogspot.com /2006/02/vivaldi-folia-kota-landowska-purcell_28.html (1208 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wanda Landowska (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Wanda Landowska[vAn´dA lAndOf´skA] Pronunciation Key, 1879–1959, Polish-French harpsichordist and pianist, studied at the Warsaw Conservatory.
		Manuel de Falla and Francis Poulenc wrote (1926 and 1929) the first 20th-century harpsichord concertos for her.
		See her Landowska on Music (1969); documentary film, Landowska: Uncommon Visionary (1999), dir.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Landowsk.html (254 words)

	A Musical Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Her background, as the last pupil of Wanda Landowska, the Polish-French harpsichordist credited with reviving popular interest in that instrument, spoke for itself.
		It was also when she switched to the harpsichord, to take full advantage of Landowska’s teaching, and because many of her favorite pieces by Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti sounded best on the instrument they had been written for, with its clarity and the “coloring” effects of its stops.
		She made her debut a year after Landowska’s death, with her husband’s encouragement, asking for minimum publicity because she meant to give only one performance.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/050567.html (664 words)

	Slog: Comment on Well-Tempered Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Though the sound of the instrument may not be to the liking of someone who is accustomed to the sounds of the piano on Bach, I must absolutely recommend the Well-Tempered Clavier recordings by Wanda Landowska.
		But the fact is that she brings to a different and very important interpretation of Bach's work, which I have long regarded as inherently ecstatic and psychedelic (there is something wholly Other about what he did, in a way that cannot be tacked to simple human formulae).
		Landowska's readings pit the immensity of the Divine with its own perfectly miniscule articulations in all spheres.
	www.thestranger.com /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=4782 (310 words)

	Landowska Wanda Louise - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Landowska Wanda Louise - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Landowska, Wanda Louise (1879-1959), Polish harpsichordist, pianist, and teacher, born in Warsaw, and educated at the Warsaw Conservatory.
		Scarlatti: Sonata in F Minor, K. 519, Played by Wanda Landowska
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Landowska_Wanda_Louise.html (124 words)

	Scarlatti: Sonatas; C.p.e. Bach: Concerto / Landowska \| ArkivMusic
		With this release, the two albums of 40 Scarlatti Sonatas Wanda Landowska recorded for HMV between 1934 and 1940 appear for the first time in their entirety on CD, in contrast to EMI Référence's ill-advised single disc of excerpts.
		Four of Landowska's RCA Victor Scarlatti performances are thrown in for good measure, plus her HMV Bach C minor Fantasia and Handel Air and Variations.
		Landowska articulates phrases with a fusion of clarity and character that treat the music's dazzling elegance and elemental fervor on equal terms.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=12271 (893 words)

	JWA Presents "This Week in History"
		Born in Warsaw in 1879, Wanda Landowska studied piano at the Warsaw Conservatory, from which she graduated at age 14.
		But Landowska was determined to play these works on the original instrument, despite discouragement from musicologists and fellow musicians.
		In 1912, Landowska commissioned a harpsichord to be built for her own use; she later transported the instrument all over Europe for her numerous performances.
	www.jwa.org /this_week/week33.html (2318 words)

	Artist Biography: Malcolm Hamilton, Harpsichordist Extraordinary
		In his rendering of Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues for example, Malcolm uses the technique of "terrace dynamics", moving from one manual to the other, and of octave building, adding a 4' in the top or a 16' to the base, to bring out in every possible way the intricate internal architecture of each piece.
		Unique to Malcolm's performances is a technique he learned from Landowska, whereby both hands are playing on the upper manual, while a thumb-stretch to the lower manual brings out a theme, or one important line in the music.
		One of his favorites was of the time he was embellishing a celebrated work as Landowska had done.
	www.baroquemusic.org /MalcolmHamilton.html (768 words)

	Amazon.ca: Goldberg Vars/Italian Cto/Chro: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Few have touched Landowska's proudly rhetorical traversal of the Chromatic Fantasy, with each whirlwind run and heart-stopping pause emerging as if it were being improvised on the spot.
		The wash of romanticism given to the Variations since Ms Landowska's performances is swept away - and when you read the booklet notes and come to realise that this was the first performance on disc of the work, which was once considered unplayable, you cannot but admire and be thankful to the performer.
		Each of the selections reissued by EMI on this disc is a masterpiece recorded by Landowska in her prime.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002DDV7 (1118 words)

	YouTube - Vintage Wanda Landowska Harpsichord Home Movie 1927
		First we get the scratchy old sounds, then the title "Landowska at home," then some guy playing some instrument in the dark, and the instrument looks like a harpsichord and sounds like a piano.
		Wanda Landowska is really the best in HISTORY OF BAH PIANO RECORDED.
		Wanda Landowska, 1879--1959, Polish-French harpsichordist and pianist, studied at the Warsaw Conservatory.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=YyBdS3DLTVY (545 words)

	The complete catalog of Wanda Landowksa recordings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		HANDEL, HAYDN and MOZART : Wanda Landowska.Wanda Landowska, harpsichord and piano.
		Wartime and early post-war broadcast transcriptions of spirited and characteristic Landowska performances.
		HAYDN, MOZART : Wanda Landowska plays Haydn and Mozart.Appearing together on a single CD for the first time are all of the sides from the group of Mozart sonatas that Landowska recorded in Paris in 1938.
	www.continuo.com /perform/landowksa.htm (425 words)

	Wanda Landowska plays Bach by Wanda Landowska at jsbach.org
		Wanda Landowska plays Bach by Wanda Landowska at jsbach.org
		Very important reissue set of recordings made by Wanda Landowska in her last years.
		Note the alternative recording of Goldberg Variations (obviously technically much better than the first from 1933), incomparable Prelude, Allegro and Fugue BWV 998 and all the other individual works.
	www.jsbach.org /landowskawandalandowskaplaysbach.html (138 words)

	Landowska, Wanda Louise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1903 she gave her first public harpsichord concert.
		In 1925 Landowska founded a school and concert hall.
		Landowska made many important harpsichord recordings, including the whole of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/L/Landowska/01.html (69 words)

	Polish Music Journal 6.1.03 - Wanda Landowska: The Interpretation of Bach's Works
		Landowska's harpsichord recitals which arouse so much enthusiasm in certain music centers in Europe.
		She has made searching studies in the music of the clavichord and harpsichord periods, as well as the instruments themselves, and has made of herself an authority on these subjects.
		Landowska does not specify which text or lecture she cites.
	www.usc.edu /dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/6.1.03/landowskabach.html (1939 words)

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