Wanda Landowska

EISENACH, Germany—When Polish harpsichordist Wanda Landowska 1879-1959 met the cellist Pablo Casals, she famously told him, "You play Bach your way and I'll play Bach his way."

Remembering the Heroine of the Harpsichord A. J. Goldmann 2011

She became a protegee of German violinist Adolf Busch and also studied with renowned harpsichordist Wanda Landowska and guitarist Andres Segovia.

Blanche Moyse, musical pioneer and peerless conductor of Bach choral works, dies at 101 Matt Schudel 2011

The exhibition "Memories of Wanda Landowska" marks the 100th anniversary of a "musical battle" between the piano and the harpsichord held November 1911 in Eisenach.

Remembering the Heroine of the Harpsichord A. J. Goldmann 2011

A fortuitous encounter with Wanda Landowska, who was then living and teaching in Berlin, prompted Weiss-Mann to focus her attention on the harpsichord and, with such other early Landowska students as Alice Ehlers and Eta Harich-Schneider, she was in the forefront of the early music revival in Germany in general and the revival of the harpsichord in particular.

Edith Weiss-Mann. 2009

She also studied harpsichord with Gunter Ramin in Leipzig and with Wanda Landowska in Paris (1931).

Edith Gerson-Kiwi. 2009

During the long summer months, she also studied there with Wanda Landowska (1897 – 1959) and Lazare-Lévy (1882 – 1964).

Pnina Salzman. 2009

Another important step in the study of early music was taken by Wanda Landowska and Arnold Dolmetsch.

Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

Scott Ross and Wanda Landowska, though, I admit that I've never gotten Landowska, show how elegant and downright perfect BWV 988 can be.

Archive 2007-04-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

Scott Ross and Wanda Landowska, though, I admit that I've never gotten Landowska, show how elegant and downright perfect BWV 988 can be.

No, sir, I don't like it Patrick J. Smith 2007

Born in 1879 in Poland, Wanda Landowska was a product both of the nineteenth century and of Eastern Europe.

Wanda Landowska Thomson, Virgil 1965