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Biographical Note
Note: All entries refer to Wanda Landowska unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1879, July 5 | Born, Warsaw, Poland |
| circa 1883 | Began playing piano |
| circa late 1880s | Began piano studies with Chopin specialist Jan Kleczyński |
| circa 1893-1895 | Studied piano with Chopin specialist Alexander Michałowski at the Warsaw Conservatory |
| 1896 | Traveled to Berlin Studied composition with Heinrich Urban |
| 1900 | Moved to Paris Married folklorist Henri Lew Began researching 17th and 18th-century music and its interpretation |
| circa 1902 | Performed Bach concertos on the piano at the Schola Cantorum |
| 1903, Oct. 30 | First public program appearance on harpsichord |
| 1903-circa 1913 | Toured Europe in concerts featuring harpsichord Wrote articles intended to overcome widely-held resistance towards harpsichord performance |
| 1905 | Made first recordings on reproducing piano rolls |
| 1909 | Published Musique Ancienne Toured Russia Performed for Leo Tolstoy, who showed great interest in her ideas on classical music |
| 1912 | Commissioned Pleyel to construct a modern harpsichord according to her specifications Introduced the Pleyel Grand Modele de Concert at the Breslau Bach Festival |
| 1913 | Invited by August Kretzschmar to teach course in harpsichord playing at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik |
| 1914-1918 | Detained with husband in Berlin as civil prisoners on parole |
| 1915, Nov. 24 | Denise Restout born, Paris, France |
| 1919 | Henri Lew killed in an automobile accident in Berlin Played harpsichord continuo in the St. Matthew Passion in Basel Gave master classes in harpsichord at the Basel Conservatory Established home in Paris |
| 1923, Nov. 20 | Appeared for the first time in America, as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski Brought four Pleyel harpsichords on her American tour |
| 1923 Nov.-Dec. | Made first recordings for Victor Talking Machine Company |
| 1925 | Bought villa at Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (north of Paris) Established the Ecole de Musique Ancienne for the study of early music |
| 1926 | Commissioned Manuel de Falla to compose the Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello Premiered de Falla's concerto in Barcelona in November |
| 1929 | Commissioned Francis Poulenc to compose Concert Champêtre for harpsichord and small orchestra Poulenc's concerto premiered in Paris in May |
| 1933 | Restout began studying harpsichord with Landowska First complete performance of Bach's Goldberg-Variations |
| 1940 | Took refuge in Switzerland in response to German invasion of France; abandons her villa, library, and collection of instruments in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt |
| 1940-1941 | Spent several months at Banyuls-sur-Mer |
| 1941 | Arrived in New York City with Restout |
| 1942, Feb. 21 | Presented concert of harpsichord music in New York City featuring the Goldberg-Variations |
| 1942-1947 | Lived in New York |
| 1945-1959 | Made recordings for RCA Victor, including Bach's Goldberg-Variations, the complete Well-Tempered Clavier, the Two and Three Part Inventions, various other works on the harpsichord, and several Mozart and Haydn sonatas on the piano |
| 1949-1959 | Lived in Lakeville, Connecticut Concentrated on teaching and recording |
| 1959, Aug. 16 | Died, Lakeville, Connecticut |
| 1965 | Restout published Landowska on Music |
| 2004, Mar. 9 | Restout died, Lakeville, Connecticut |