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Wanda Aleksandra Landowska was a Polish-French harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings, and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord . She became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. July 1879 – 16. August 1959
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Wanda Landowska Quotes

“You play Bach your way and I'll play him his way.”

Wanda Landowska

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quotations (1994), p. 110 ISBN 1-85326-327-3

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“I never practice, I always play.”

Wanda Landowska

Time 1 December 1952

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