Celebrating the career of Wanda Landowska

This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of Wanda Landowska, the famous Polish harpsichordist. Wanda eloped to Paris in 1899 with Henri Lew, a polish enthnologist whom she had met in Berlin where she was in college, studying piano and composition.
Because of a severe ganglion in her [...]

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Are you a fan of the harpsichord? If you are then you probably have heard of Wanda Landowska, famous Polish harpsichordist who almost single-handedly revived the harpsichord after it had fallen into oblivion after the piano was invented in 1710. I’ve been a fan of the harpsichord since I first heard one back in the [...]

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Today at the Library of Congress I spent quite a bit of time ready the teenage diaries of Wanda Landowska.  Around age 15, she developed a serious ganglion in her right wrist and had to have years of treatments for it, including a couple of surgeries.  She was devastated by this and was worried sick [...]

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Chantdoc goes to Washington, D.C.

I’m in the middle of a very exciting adventure in Washington, D.C. The official reason is to do research at the Library of Congress on Wanda Landowska and the Revival of the Harpsichord. Wanda was the topic of my Ph.D. dissertation back in 1990 and at that time I was aware [...]

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