Leopold Godowsky | Downloads

(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

Downloadable Godowskiana

° Manuscript of the Prelude and Fugue on BACH for left hand alone

° Manuscript of three songs: Le Poete a l'enfant, Vive l'amour, Serenade (1888)

° Godowsky's Progressive Exercises from The Art Publication Society (1912)

      Exercise for 3 fingers
      Exercise for 4 fingers
      Exercise of 12 notes
      Exercises in crossing
      Preparatory work for arpeggios
      Easier exercises for 3rd, 4th and 5th fingers
      Exercises for strengthening the fingers
      For stretching and making the fingers independent

° Godowsky's exercises from Alberto Jonas' Master School of Modern Piano Playing and Virtuosity

      Exercise 1
      Exercises 2, 3, 4
      Exercise 5
      Exercise 6
      Comparison of chromatic thirds fingering
      Exercises 7, 8

° First two pages of Michael Press' orchestration of Gamelan from Java Suite

° First page of Michael Press' orchestration of Boro Budur in Moonlight from Java Suite

° First pages of David Stanhope's orchestration of Hari Besaar from Java Suite

° February 10th, 1926 concert program from Il Conservatorio di Roma

° Concert program with Beethoven's Triple Concerto