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Even when she works into the small hours of dawn, Mme. Landowska wakes at 8. Coffee and correspondence are brought to her bed by Denise Restout or Elsa Schunicke, who for years have served as adoring disciples, companions and helpers to "Mamusia" (Polish for mummy...
Pint-sized (4 ft. 8 in.) Mme. Landowska, 73, is unchallenged high priestess of the plunky, double-keyboard instrument for which Bach wrote, before the piano supplanted it in the 18th century. Under her dedicated leadership, the harpsichord is having something of a revival, and her recording of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is already a modern classic. Next week RCA Victor will release its fifth album, leaving her one album still...
...villager is no longer surprised at the single globe of light shining from the ungainly green-and-yellow hilltop house which broods over the main street. He knows, along with those of his neighbors who have seen it, homeward bound from a church supper or Saturday-night movie, that Mme. Wanda Landowska is at her devotions: her altar, the harpsichord...
Several hours at the harpsichord later ("I never practice, I always play"), Mme. Landowska takes an hour's walk around the countryside. Neither rain nor snow stops her from venturing outdoors among the Berkshire foothills she has loved since first she came in the summer...
...books and manuscripts, her pupils, her ancient instrument and nine dogs. Music lovers from all over the world came to her villa and concert hall. The 2 o'clock train that left Paris every Sunday for Saint-Leu, 30 minutes away, was referred to by station guards as "Mme. Landowska's train...