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                     (1870-1938)

Pianist, writer and lecturer Frank Cooper

 

"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

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    Leopold Godowsky, the Brahma of the Keyboard

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    Letter from Igor Stravinsky to Dagmar Godowsky, Leopold's daughter (1st page) (May 17th, 1937)

    Stravinsky is asking a favor: "... werden Sie 'ja' sagen, aber was mich da geniert ist die Geldfrage: ich brauche Medicin (gegen meinen 'nervous sympathicus') die mein New Yorker Arzt Dr. Cooper, mir verschrieben hat und die jetzt schön zu Ende kommt ... Schicken Sie es mir bitte durch den selben Commissaire principale de 'Paris' ..." (Stravinsky mentions Charlie Chaplin, a close friend of Dagmar)

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