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Wanda Landowska

1879 - 1959

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Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord in 1933. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wanda Landowska has received more than 224,797 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Wanda Landowska is the 254th most popular musician (up from 255th in 2019), the 262nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Musician.

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  • 220k

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  • 60.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Wanda Landowska ranks 254 out of 3,175. Before her are Dinu Lipatti, Georges Prêtre, Consuelo Velázquez, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Peter Tosh, and Beck. After her are Chico Buarque, Bob Klose, Toots Thielemans, Henryk Szeryng, Karl Jenkins, and Heinrich Neuhaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Wanda Landowska ranks 45. Before her are Friedrich Adler, E. M. Forster, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Frederick Griffith, and Adolf Strauss. After her are Boris Savinkov, Marius Jacob, Paul Poiret, Ethel Barrymore, Max Schreck, and Huda Sha'arawi. Among people deceased in 1959, Wanda Landowska ranks 32. Before her are Mario Lanza, Edward C. Tolman, Ettore Majorana, John Foster Dulles, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal. After her are Rudolf Caracciola, Sidney Bechet, Ethel Barrymore, Olga Knipper, Edmond Debeaumarché, and Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wanda Landowska ranks 262 out of 1,694. Before her are Albert Barillé (1920), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Jan Długosz (1415), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Franz Mehring (1846), and Kazimierz Deyna (1947). After her are Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Konstanty Kalinowski (1838), Gunderic (379), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), and Robert Wiene (1873).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Wanda Landowska ranks 4. Before her are Władysław Szpilman (1911), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), and Henryk Wieniawski (1835). After her are Henryk Szeryng (1918), Artur Schnabel (1882), Krystian Zimerman (1956), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), Josef Hofmann (1876), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Bronisław Huberman (1882), and Julian Fontana (1810).

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