Previous posts for July 5th are here: George Rochberg (2019) and William Crotch (2020)
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Wanda Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959)was a Polish harpsichordist who was important in the revival of interest in that instrument in the last century.
With Wanda Landowska on Harpsichord!
From a modern point of view, these are hardly authentic performances -- Landowska's Pleyel harpsichord was a giant beast that bore little resemblance to any instrument of Bach's time... ---James Manheim, at AllMusic
When critics complained of her that her
Harpsichord made such a clatter,
She said, “That’s absurd,
I would never be heard
If I played with a soft pitter-patter!”
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