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LANDOWSKA ON MUSIC by Wanda Landowska, edited and translated by Denise Restout and Robert Hawkins. 434 pages. Stein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Visionary Musician | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

Back to a Love. World War II forced Landowska. who was of Jewish origin, to flee France. She came to the U.S. and settled in Lakeville, Conn., with Elsa Schumicke and Denise Restout, who had been her constant companions for more than 25 years. There she concentrated on recording her interpretation of the old masters. Her recording of the 48 labyrinthine preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is a modern classic. Landowska called it "my last will and testament." It was far from her last. At 76, but with the spirit of a sprite, the high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Promise Kept | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Each Saturday and Sunday for the past three months, a little procession has arrived punctually at 6:30 p.m. at RCA Victor's midtown Manhattan recording studios. The routine never varies. The youngest, Mlle. Denise Restout, goes straight to the harpsichord, yanks open her tool kit, and starts tuning. The huskiest, Mlle. Elsa Schunicke, carries the pillows and the hamper, loaded with sandwiches, a vacuum jug of coffee, and a supply of specially blended horehound drops. Then, her hands folded before her, and her craggy features blissfully composed, Mme. Wanda Landowska herself floats in like a tiny wraith, nods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grandma Bachante | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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