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
Their changing styles reflected the transition from the metal-framed instruments of the Wanda Landowska generation to the more resonant classical-replica harpsichords, and indeed to more authentic performance practice, with appropriate and stylish ornaments.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013
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