Landowska
Americannoun
noun
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Wanda Landowska, who was hugely influential in reviving the harpsichord as a concert instrument, was once asked about her approach to making music.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
Journalist Varian Fry, smuggling people out of Vichy France and into Spain — including such celebrated figures as Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall and Wanda Landowska — wrote home, “It’s stimulating to be outside the law.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022
In 1911 the brilliant harpsichord pioneer Wanda Landowska discovered the piano languishing in the same drafty monastery where Chopin and Sand had stayed.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2018
By then, musicians such as Sylvia Marlowe and Wanda Landowska had kicked off a harpsichord renaissance — leading some wealthy American listeners to buy modern metal-framed versions of the instrument for their homes.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2018
The Polish-born Landowska was based at Lakeville, to the north-west, and in 1951 Puyana became her last pupil, his studies with her continuing until her death in 1959.
From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2013
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