ABSTRACT
Polish pianist and harpsichordist, born in Warsaw. She studied piano at the Warsaw Conservatory, then in Berlin. She toured Europe as a pianist, but shifted her interest to the harpsichord. In 1913 she gave a special course on that instrument at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. Landowska achieved acclaim and made her American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1923. In 1925 she established a school and concert center near Paris for the study of early music. She fled Europe during World War II, and settled in the U.S. in 1941. Her home was in Lakeville, Connecticut, where she died.
