Wanda Landowska (1897 - 1959), pioneer of rediscovering early music and especially the harpsichord (whose strings are plucked with kind of a plectrum, not hammered like pianos):
Worldwide famous not only because of her virtuoso playing on both harpsichord and piano, but also because of her special finger position:
(Finally started to learn playing keyboard instruments two months ago, mostly practising on my clavichord that I fortunately found very inexpensive here in Hamburg.)
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Wanda Landowska (1897 - 1959), pioneer of rediscovering early music and especially the harpsichord (whose strings are plucked with kind of a plectrum, not hammered like pianos):
Worldwide famous not only because of her virtuoso playing on both harpsichord and piano, but also because of her special finger position:
Between two tunes we played yesterday, Nella of my third grade cornets went to the blackboard for a sketch of her old teacher blowing the horn.
Squiggly line Her Jakob, I love it.
Me playing the "Clavier".
(Finally started to learn playing keyboard instruments two months ago, mostly practising on my clavichord that I fortunately found very inexpensive here in Hamburg.)
Such a beautiful instrument!
Wilhelm Busch, 1832 - 1908: "The hostile neighbors" or "The consequences of music"
Wilhelm Busch:"The virtuoso"
When I was a child, Busch's collected works still where on the bookshelf in almost every German apartment.
Heinrich Zille, 1858 -1929