Chances are, you’ve never heard of Wanda Landowska, not unless you’re either a harpsichordist or an afficianado of early music. Wanda Landowska happens to be the woman who (almost) single-handedly revived the harpsichord as a performing instrument. You see, once the piano was invented and perfected, around 1711, (in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristifori) the harpsichord […]