LANDOWSKA, WANDA / RESTOUT, DENISE — Landowska on music

Secker & Warburg 1965 First British Edition 434 p., B/W photos on plates, index HARDCOVER: (Orig.cloth with gilt. portrait, light traces of wear . VERY GOOD) Keyboardist Wanda Landowska has been called many things over the past century: visionary, diva, virtuoso, Mamusia. Her story is extraordinary, a self-made legend who mined the rich past of early Western keyboard music to forge her future as an authentic performer and renowned scholar of these musical traditions. Keyboardist Wanda Landowska has been called many things over the past century: visionary, diva, virtuoso, Mamusia. Her story is extraordinary, a self-made legend who mined the rich past of early Western keyboard music to forge her future as an authentic performer and renowned scholar of these musical traditions.