LANDOWSKA Wanda [Warsaw, 1879 - Lakeville, USA, 1959], Polis - Lot 301

LANDOWSKA Wanda [Warsaw, 1879 - Lakeville, USA, 1959], Polish harpsichordist and pianist Polish harpsichordist and pianist. Typed letter with 4 autograph lines in pencil addressed to Monsieur and Madame Barbès in Algiers. December 24, 1933; 2 pages in-4° on letterhead "Ecole Wanda Landowska", envelope enclosed. "Do you doubt, dear friends, of the place you occupy in my heart since the day I knew you more closely? I knew you more closely? While leaving you, I did not stop thinking about Algiers, about you both [...] I will play in an hour at the Sarah Bernhardt Theater a magnificent concert of Bach with orchestra and pieces by Couperin. [...] The Goldbergs have finally been published, the recording is magnificent. I I would be happy to know your impressions. The letter from Algiers from my friend Barbès has kindly promised me to write to write for the Menestrel (and perhaps for the Musical world) would, I believe, be just as well received at the received at the Revue Musicale. What struck me the most and attached me to my listeners of Algiers, it is their great sensitivity and their prodigious faculty of assimilation. The most eloquent proof of this was the way in which they received the Goldberg Variations. [...] I am thinking of our Rhapsodie arabe (in his hand)".