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6 unusual facts about Wanda Landowska


Saint-Leu-la-Forêt

Wanda Landowska her home in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt became a center for the performance and study of old music.

Theodore Fried

Another account statest hat he travelled with the artist Marcel Duchamp and the Polish harpsichordist Wanda Landowska and that he arrived in New York, before the artist Marc Chagall, whom he was to met at the dock, and helped him to settle into the New York artistic community.

Wanda Landowska

She settled in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1949, and re-established herself as a performer and teacher in the United States, touring extensively.

Landowska was born in Warsaw, where her father was a lawyer, and her mother a linguist who translated Mark Twain into Polish.

A Camera Three series program entitled Reminiscences of Wanda Landowska aired 17 March 1963 on CBS.

A number of important new works were written for her: Manuel de Falla's El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show) marked the return of the harpsichord to the modern orchestra.



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