Leopold Godowsky

(1870-1938)

"No lapidary ever practiced his craft with more finesse than did Leopold Godowsky the art of music. With fastidious precision Godowsky set to paper a great series of original works, transcriptions and paraphrases. To look at them is to be hypnotized by their complex perfection; to hear them is to experience romantic pianism at its outer limits." - Frank Cooper

Books relating to Godowsky

Chasins, Abram. Speaking of Pianists (Random House: 1957)

Aronson, Maurice. A Key to the Miniatures of Leopold Godowsky. (Wexham and Nordham: 1935)

Brook, Donald. Masters of the Keyboard. (Books for Libraries Press: 1946, 2nd ed. Ayer Co. Pub.: 1987)

Cooke, James Francis. Great Pianists on Piano Playing. (Theodore Presser: 1917, reprint Dover Publications: 1999)

Edel, Theodore. Piano Music for the Left Hand Alone. (Indiana University Press: 1994)

Godowsky, Dagmar. First Person Plural. (Viking Penguin: 1958)

Hinson, Maurice. The Pianist's Guide to Transcriptions, Arrangements and Paraphrases. (Indiana University Press: 1990, reprint 2001)

Hinson, Maurice. Guide to the Pianists' Repertoire (Indiana University Press: 3rd ed. 2001)

Hofmann, Josef. Piano Playing with Piano Questions Answered. (Theodore Presser: 1920, 2nd ed. 1976)

Loesser, Arthur. Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History. (Simon and Schuster: 1954)

Martyn, Barrie. Rachmininoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor. (Scolar Press: 1990)

Nicholas, Jeremy. Godowsky: The Pianists' Pianist (APR Publications: 1989)

Rimm, Robert. The Composer Pianists: Hamelin and the Eight (Amadeus Press: 2002)

Rosen, Charles. Piano Notes (Free Press: 2002)

Schonberg, Harold. The Great Pianists (Simon & Schuster: 1963, 2nd ed. 1987)

Sorabji, Kaikhosru. Mi Contra Fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician. (Da Capo Press, 1986)