Volume 3, Number 12 · January 28, 1965
Wanda Landowska
By Virgil Thomson
Landowska on Music
collected, edited, and translated by Denise Restout, assisted by Robert Hawkins
Stein and Day, 434 pp., $9.95
Born in 1879 in Poland, Wanda Landowska was a product both of the nineteenth century and of Eastern Europe. In Warsaw she studied piano with teachers who specialized in Chopin. At sixteen she went to Berlin to learn to compose; and it was there that she formed the musical attachment that was to guide her life, an unquenchable passion for the works of J. S. Bach.
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