Vintage Wanda Landowska Harpsichord Home Movie 1927

Filmed at Wanda Landowska's home in St. Leu-La-Foret near Paris, 1927 by Karol Liszniewski (my late father's piano teacher).

Wanda Landowska, 1879--1959, Polish-French harpsichordist and pianist, studied at the Warsaw Conservatory. She taught piano (1900--1912) at the Schola Cantorum, Paris, and harpsichord (1912--19) at the Berlin Hochschule. She established her École de Musique ancienne in Paris in 1925. In 1940, she came to the United States, settling in Lakeville, Conn., where she taught and made recordings. Largely responsible for the revival of interest in the harpsichord and its music, she was the teacher of many noted contemporary harpsichordists. Manuel de Falla and Francis Poulenc wrote (1926 and 1929) the first 20th-century harpsichord concertos for her.See her Landowska on Music (1969); documentary film, Landowska: Uncommon Visionary (1999), dir. by B. Attie.
The music on this 1927 home movie is Scarlatti's Capriccio (which was composed for the harpsichord) played by pianist David Edward Smith, available on this channel at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qaCwJ1YGns

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[earlymusicus]

What an absolute treasure this film footage is!

[creativebna]

Thank you so much. My father's playing is on the video and he did have the experience of seeing/being taught by Ms. Landowski @ his music teacher's house in Cincinnati.

[walterleipzig]

This clip should be considered a national monument! Merci mille fois!

[Yuriy21]

Victor Gjugo wrote, that in art there is no progress... So it also is, and we did not manage to surpass pianists of the past.

[zzindorf]

How lovely to see her home, from which she was driven out by the Nazis, who stole her precious collection of manuscripts which were probably destroyed.

[INTERNETVID]

thanks for posting enjoyed the music

[memelasmamasrico]

increible limpieza!!

[sshare]

Happy Birthday Mme. Landowska (July 5 1879); may your art live forever!

[rgeraredz]

One of these things is not like the other!

[jrakg]

A rare piece of luck unearthing this footage! A pity a Landowska Scarlatti recording was not used to accompany it!

John Austin, Australia