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Leopold Godowsky
Leopold Godowsky is credited on 566 releases across 114 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
566
Pressings credited
114
Albums
8
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. (; 13 February 1870 – 21 November 1938) was a virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher, born in what is now Lithuania to Jewish parents, who became an American citizen in 1891. He was one of the most highly regarded performers of his time, known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion within pianistic technique – principles later propagated by his pupils, such as Heinrich Neuhaus. He was heralded among musical giants as the "Buddha of the Piano". Ferruccio Busoni claimed that he and Godowsky were "the only composers to have added anything of significance to keyboard writing since Franz Liszt." As a composer, Godowsky is best known for his Java Suite, Triakontameron, Passacaglia and Walzermasken, alongside his transcriptions of works by other composers; the best-known of these works are the 53 Studies on Chopin's Études (1894–1914).
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Credited work
566 releases · 114 albums · active 1950–2026
- Performance · 652
- Other credits · 130
Studios: Abbey Road Studios · Theresa L. Kaufmann Concert Hall · Potton Hall · St George's, Bristol
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Jascha Heifetz
- Chopin
- Godowsky
- Stephen Hough
- Shura Cherkassky
- Heifetz
- Lars Roos
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