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Leopold Godowsky
Born: 13th February 1870, Vilnius, Lithuania
Died: 21st November 1938, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: American, Polish
Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. was a virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher, born in what is now Lithuania to Jewish parents, who became an American citizen in 1891. He was one of the most highly regarded performers of his time, known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion within pianistic technique – principles later propagated by his pupils, such as Heinrich Neuhaus.
He was heralded among musical giants as the "Buddha of the Piano". Ferruccio Busoni claimed that he and Godowsky were "the only composers to have added anything of significance to keyboard writing since Franz Liszt."
As a composer, Godowsky is best known for his Java Suite, Triakontameron, Passacaglia and Walzermasken, alongside his transcriptions of works by other composers; the best-known of these works are the 53 Studies on Chopin's Études (1894–1914).
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- 53 Piano Studies on the Chopin Études (2)
- Adagietto from L'Arlesienne (after Bizet) (1)
- Ancient Dances (1)
- Avowal (Poem No. 2) (1)
- Calm As The Night (after Bohm) (1)
- Concert arrangements of JS Bach's sonata for solo violin, BWV 1001 (1)
- Concert arrangements of JS Bach's sonatas for solo violin (3) (1)
- Concert Paraphrase from 'Fledermaus' (1)
- Concert Paraphrase on 'Wine, Women and Song' (1)
- Java Suite (Phonoramas:Tonal Journeys for the Pianoforte) (1)
- Miniatures (46) (1)
- Modern Dances (1)
- Moto Perpetuo (1)
- Mozart Concerto cadenzas (K.365, K.488 and K.49) (1)
- Old Vienna (2)
- Passacaglia (1)
- Piano Sonata in E minor (2)
- Rondino on a theme by Beethoven (1)
- Schubert Song Transcriptions (1)
- Song Without Words (1)
- Ständchen (after Richard Strauss) (1)
- Suite No. 1 (1)
- Suite No. 2 (1)
- Suite No. 3 (1)
- Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Johann Strauss (1)
- Tango, Op. 165 No. 2 (after Albeniz) (1)
- The Swan (after Saint-Saens) (1)
- Triakontameron (1)
- Triakontameron No. 1 'Nocturnal Tango' (1)
- Triana (after Albeniz) (1)
- Twelve Impressions (1)
- Waltz Poems (2) (1)
- Waltz-Poems for both hands (6) (1)
- Waltz-Poems for the left hand (6) (1)
- Walzermasken (1)
- Weber Invitation to the Dance Op. 65 (1)
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