Kultur It’s Wanda Landowska’s 135th birthday: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Landowska#mediaviewer/File:Landowska_1907.jpg She made the first harpsichord recording of the Goldberg Variations: https://youtube/watch?v=HWD-JvJ-6yk She was respected as a musician throughout Europe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Landowska#mediaviewer/File:Landowska_concert.jpg She taught for seven years at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. She had works written for her by Falla and Poulenc among others. She showed young musicians how to play: https://youtube/watch?v=YyBdS3DLTVY [When Casals criticised her approach, she said: ‘You play Bach your way, and Ill play him his way.’] But she loved another woman and her forebears were Jewish, so German civilisation couldn’t allow her to live in Europe, so she ran away and her house was looted and her manuscripts and instruments were stolen. And some people in Europe in 2014 still think that kind of thing is right and proper: hungarianspectrum.wordpress/2014/06/29/undisguised-anti-semitism-of-viktor-orbans-chief-ideologue-the-historian-maria-schmidt/
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 05:54:23 +0000
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