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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 211,890 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Wanda Landowska is the 255th most popular musician (up from 261st in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 256th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Musician.

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  • 210k

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  • 59.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Wanda Landowska ranks 255 out of 2,662. Before her are Franz Berwald, Henryk Szeryng, Joe Zawinul, Slash, Lars Ulrich, and Paul Wittgenstein. After her are Ian Curtis, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Arthur Nikisch, John Zorn, and Fats Domino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Wanda Landowska ranks 46. Before her are Ali of Hejaz, Shunroku Hata, Boris Savinkov, Huda Sha'arawi, Knud Rasmussen, and Margaret Sanger. After her are William Beveridge, Paul Poiret, Max Schreck, Edward Steichen, Bedřich Hrozný, and Hisaichi Terauchi. Among people deceased in 1959, Wanda Landowska ranks 33. Before her are John Foster Dulles, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Cecil B. DeMille, Enrico De Nicola, Alfred Kubin, and Mario Lanza. After her are Rudolf Caracciola, Ernest Bloch, Sidney Bechet, Olga Knipper, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, and D. F. Malan.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wanda Landowska ranks 252 out of 1,454. Before her are Henryk Szeryng (1918), Victor Klemperer (1881), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Kurt Masur (1927), and Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793). After her are Leopold Trepper (1904), Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), and Edward Gierek (1913).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Wanda Landowska ranks 5. Before her are Władysław Szpilman (1911), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), and Henryk Szeryng (1918). After her are Krystian Zimerman (1956), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Josef Hofmann (1876), Artur Schnabel (1882), Bronisław Huberman (1882), and Julian Fontana (1810).

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