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Extractions: visitors since October, 16th, 2000 A Note by the Editor (V.Voskobojnikov) This 1939 report is an excerpt from the book "Riflessioni, Ricordi, Diari, Lettere" ("Thoughts, recollections, diaries, letters") edited by Valerij Voskobojnikov, Sellerio Editore (in Italian). Leopold Godowsky was one of my friends and my best Teacher, too. I can recollect my first meeting with such a beautiful pianist. Upon suggestion of F.M. Blumenfel'd - one of the estimators of his talent - my father sent me to him in Berlin in order to follow his piano classes. This small, chubby but lively man spoke me in a very plain way. After he heard my performance of the F minor Chopin's Piano Concert, he told me: "You have your own personality, and I will keep it". Godowsky used to talk very little with his pupils during his lessons, and even more seldom about performance techniques. Most of his pupils - coming from any corner of the world - were thinking that the Maestro, the great virtuoso, would have initiated them to the secrets of the technical mastery - but they would have been disappointed. During his lessons Godowsky was talking only about music. This photo of L.Godowsky appears at page 75 of the third volume in Russian language devoted to Neuhaus "Genrich Nejgauz. Vospominanija. Pis'ma. Materialy" ("H. Neuhaus, recollections, letters, papers"), Moscow 1992, edited by Elena Richter, who was one of his pupils.
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Extractions: I am not concerned at not being known; I seek to be worthy to be known. -K'ung fu-tzu, quoted by Godowsky in the foreword to his Bach transcriptions I love the piano and those who love the piano. The piano as a medium for expression is a whole world by itself. No other instrument can fill or replace its own say in the world of emotion, sentiment, poetry, imagery and fancy. -Leopold Godowsky in a letter to Maurice Aronson (Paris, 10th July 1931) Godowsky was born on 13 February 1870, the only child of Anna and Matthew Godowsky, in Sozly, a little town not far from Wilno, the ancient capital of Lithuania. His father, a respected physician, died in a cholera epidemic only eighteen months after his son's birth. With barely enough money for food and lodgings, Anna and her infant son moved to nearby Schirwinty and thence, at the invitation of her friends Louis and Minna Passinock, to Wilno. Louis's consuming passion was music - a fine amateur violinist who ran a piano shop - and, having no children of his own, set about teaching young Leopold the violin in the hope that he might turn him into a second Paganini. Though his pupil was soon proficient enough to have mastered the solo part of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor it was to the piano that he was instinctively drawn, despite being actively discouraged at first. I would be very glad could I have stated with truth that I was a pupil of [Franz] Liszt or any other great man, but I was not. I have not had three months lessons in my life. I have been told I was playing the piano before I was two. I think, however, an imaginative family perpetrated this story. I cannot vouch for the truth one way or the other. I have had some extraordinary experience, and this may have happened. I do not remember whether anybody taught me the value and meaning of notes and the use of the fingers of the keyboard, or whether I acquired my knowledge in an autodidactic way, but I do remember that I had no help from my fifth year on.
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Extractions: visitors since October, 16th, 2000 "An example about how much some Russian composer greatly valued Godowsky, can be considered the Rachmaninoff’s "Polka", which is dedicated to him. This composition exactly reproduces the way of thinking and the style of Godowsky's transcriptions. I used to make a joke about this matter, answering to people which was asking me about what Godowsky transcription I liked more: 'The Rachmaninoff Polka, so much is similar …'. " Neuhaus was particularly puzzled about the transcriptions of the Chopin studies that Godowsky made. They are astonishingly difficult, so that only a pianist of the caliber of Godowsky could afford them. Neuhaus believed they were quite unuseful. Also the collection "Renaissance" make him quite doubtful. It collects some elaboration - in a modern fashion – of excerpts of ancient music. The Godowsky’s Sonata was long and prolix. There were plenty of themes, intricacies, imitations of Beethoven, Chopin, etc. The composer was aware of that, when he told Neuhaus during 1935: "Maybe I’m a incurable scribbler, and maybe for this reasons I normally write so much!"
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Extractions: 21 November 1938, New York This Lithuanian pianist of Polish-Jewish origin is counted as one of the greatest self-taught artists in music history. Although Godowskys parents did little to encourage his musical ambitions, he was hailed as a wunderkind at the age of nine. Apart from three thoroughly frustrating months at the Berlin Musikhochschule in 1884, Godowskys only "studies" were his three years with Camille Saint-Saëns from 1887 to 1890. Despite his ignorance of the classroom, he was appointed to various professorships in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Berlin between 1890 and 1909. Finally, in 1909, Godowsky took over Ferruccio Busonis master class for piano at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Vienna. By this time he had established himself as a world-class concert pianist with extended tours of North America and Europe. He had taken US citizenship in 1891, and on the outbreak of the First World War he settled in the United States and did not resume his international concert schedule till 1918. While recording Chopins Nocturnes in 1930 Godowsky suffered a partial paralysis of his right hand, which brought his career as a pianist to an abrupt end and confined his artistic activity to composing. Sound Clips Though Leopold Godowsky was always admired during his concert career for his consummate musicianship and technical brilliance, he was also celebrated as a "pianists pianist," revealing his mastery even more in private than in the concert hall and reducing pianist colleagues and friends to awed silence with the beauty and virtuosity of his playing. A contemporary recalls: "No musician was more capable of constantly gathering around him creative companions in so many fields of artistic work [ ].
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Extractions: KLASSIK TIPPS ARCHIV - Rubriken KLAVIER Empfehlungen Juli - September 2000 Leopold Godowsky , polnischer Pianist und einer der ganz grossen Tastenvirtuosen hat sich einen besonderen Namen mit der Bearbeitung Stücke grosser Komponisten gemacht. Sämtliche Studien über die Etüden von Chopin sind ein unglaubliches Stück Musik, mit höchster pianistischer Herausforderung. Marc Andre Hamelin hat sich hier zweifellos selbst übertroffen. Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variationen sind ein wunderbares Werk und ein Markstein in der Musikgeschichte. Angela Hewitts Einspielung gilt als eine der besten Bach Interpretationen der letzten Zeit. Charles Alkan ist ein französischer Komponist der Romantik, der bei uns praktisch unbekannt ist, bzw. war muss man jetzt sagen. Erst in der letzten Zeit wurde der Musik dieses Komponisten zu neuem Leben verholfen. Machen Sie sich selbst ein Bild mit den Klavierstücken, gespielt von Bernard Ringeisen und Laurent Martin, die sehr preiswert zu haben sind. Es lohnt sich. Mit einem Klick auf die Titelbezeichnung landen Sie direkt bei der Detailbeschreibung.
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Extractions: HYPERION CDA67411/2 (2 CDs) [153' 02"] In order to fully appreciate what Godowsky has done it is important to know the Chopin originals (some of the greatest piano music). However, even if you are not familiar with Chopin's inspired creations as he wrote them, Godowsky's commentaries on them retain (to a greater or lesser extent) Chopin's melodies - each can be appreciated on purely musical terms as a Chopin/Godowsky collaboration. And there are some real gems here to complement what Chopin left us. That this is so is due to Hamelin. Whatever difficulties the pianist faces (and they are considerable), Hamelin has overcome them and is able to play each of Godowsky's Studies as a musical entity. It says much for Chopin's genius - and Godowsky's imagination - that it was possible, for example, for Godowsky to write seven Studies based on Chopin's Op.10/5. Each has a different character but Chopin's original is omnipresent: it's like viewing the same object from various angles and seeing a different (but related) perspective. Hyperion's booklet is a model of how to present music that isn't heavily represented in the catalogue or, in this case, only known to piano cognoscenti. Godowsky's own introduction is included along with an essay by Jeremy Nicholas (an author on Godowsky) and comments by Hamelin himself. Add the top-notch production values of Andrew Keener and superb Tony Faulkner sound and this release cannot be faulted. I did wonder though if Hyperion has missed a trick by not adding a third CD and asking Hamelin to record Chopin's 27 Etudes as well - a complete package.
Extractions: DANACORD DACOCD 379 [approx. 65 minutes] Danacord The second volume of the Husum Festival of Rare Piano Music is just as exciting and interesting as the first. We have some 65 minutes of hidden treasures and rediscoveries. That is not to say of course that all of these works are totally unknown. Enthusiasts and connoisseurs of piano music will be well aware of the existence of each and all of these pieces. However, to have the opportunity for them to be assembled on one disc is rare. Over and above the repertoire, is the quality of the playing. Here are assembled eight first class pianists. Each one of them is a specialist in his or her own field and a superb all-round performer.
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Extractions: The fifth and last movement is the second longest with its in excess of seven-teen minutes. The movement has a Dies irae in the tempo indication, and consequently it is a serious event, almost like a Marcia funebre. The long list of indications for this concluding music of the sonata also harbors a Lento mesto and a Larghetto lamentoso, so the serenity of emotion is in place throughout, concluding the great sonata in thoughtfulness and reflection. This is masterly composed music, in the last movement reaching out to modern times in a sort of timeless statement, touching us today equally as naked and direct as it must have done at the time of composition.
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Extractions: johnc@soundstage.com Musical Performance Recording Quality Overall Enjoyment Pro Piano Records is a new label to me, but a quick perusal of their website revealed that they have released quite a number of recordings (all solo piano big surprise, huh?) over the last few years. All of their discs have been recorded to the highest standards of the day; most are 20-bit, although the most recent are 24-bit. Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938), a Polish-born pianist and composer, was considered a piano prodigy from an early age. He claimed that he had no teacher that he could remember, although he did spend time with Camille Saint-Saëns discussing theory. He wrote prolifically throughout his life, mostly for the piano. His Java Suite for solo piano, written in 1920, consists of 12 pieces, in four parts, and commemorates his impressions and feelings from his journey to Indonesia. This suite has never, until now, been recorded in its entirety. Esther Budiardjo, the performer on this disc, comes from Indonesia. She is currently completing her doctorate at the New England Conservatory of Music and has been performing publicly since 1993. This is her second disc for Pro Piano (she previously did an all-Mendelssohn album).
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