When Virgil Thomson saw Wanda Landowska perform at New York’s Town Hall in 1942, he wrote in the New York Herald-Tribune, “She plays the harpsichord better than anybody else ever plays anything.” The ...

LANDOWSKA ON MUSIC by Wanda Landowska, edited and translated by Denise Restout and Robert Hawkins. 434 pages. Stein & Day. $12.50. Few who heard her could forget her. Wanda Landowska saw to that. A ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 26, 'Coronation' Wanda Landowska, Piano Walter Goehr, Conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Fantasia Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Wanda Landowska, Piano ...

“I only dream of one thing—to play Bach and Mozart,” wrote Wanda Landowska as a little girl, and then she sealed her dream in an envelope marked: “To be opened when I am grown up.” The young daughter ...

NEW YORK — Rafael Puyana, an internationally acclaimed Colombian harpsichordist who was among the last disciples of Wanda Landowska, died March 1 in Paris. He was 81. Mr. Puyana, who made his home in ...

When Herbert Gardner was a young boy, he would tag along to chamber music rehearsals with his violinist father, and sometimes a harpsichordist named Wanda Landowska would be there. Landowska was one ...

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." While her dogmatic ...

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