Landowska

[lan-dawf-skuh, -dof-, lahn-dawf-skah]

noun

1. Wanda 1879–1959, Polish harpsichordist, in the U.S. after 1940.

Landowska

/ lanˈdɔfska /

noun

1. Wanda (ˈvanda). 1877–1959, US harpsichordist, born in Poland

Example Sentences

Two years ago, event organiser Julia Landowska was fined for swearing about PiS at a protest, a charge she is currently appealing.

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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.”

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After a childhood spent in piano lessons, he got into Harvard University and made his way to Paris, where he studied harpsichord with Wanda Landowska and music theory with Nadia Boulanger.

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In 1911 the brilliant harpsichord pioneer Wanda Landowska discovered the piano languishing in the same drafty monastery where Chopin and Sand had stayed.

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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.

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