Leopold Godowsky

Books about Leopold Godowsky and his music

Jeremy Nicholas Godowsky, the Pianists' Pianist: A Biography of Leopold Godowsky Appian Publications & Recordings, 1989; ISBN 1870295013; 345 pages Price indication: $ 177.56

Sheet music, libretti, etc.

Miniatures: Three Suites : For One Piano/Four Hands - Alfred Publishing Company
The primo parts of Godowsky's Miniatures, for use by early-grade students, are all in five-finger positions. A more advanced student or teacher may perform the more difficult secondo parts. The included CD has masterful complete recordings of the pieces, performed by famed pianists Joseph Banowetz and Alton Chung Ming Chan, plus an extra track with only the secondo part. A fascinating biography and notes on the pieces are also provided. <br><br>Joseph Banowetz graduated with a First Prize from the Vienna Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst. Banowetz has been a piano recitalist and orchestral soloist on five continents. He was awarded the Liszt Medal by the Hungarian Liszt Society in recognition of his outstanding performances of Liszt and the Romantic literature.

The Godowsky Collection, Vol. 3 - Carl Fischer, LLC
The third volume of the Godowsky Collection is primarily devoted to one of Godowsky's most remarkable and controversial projects, the virtuosic studies be based on the Etudes from Frederic Chopin's Opp. 10 and 25. Praised and reviled in equal measure when they were first performed and published (1894-1914), these "studies" are both elaborate and respectful commentaries on Chopin's genius by a great admirer, and tests of the outer limits of piano technique. <P>The volume is rounded out with the 1899 concert arrangements of Chopin's Rondo, Op.16 and six waltzes drawn from Op. 18, Op.64 and Op. 70. As with the previous volumes, the fascinating and extensive notes and biography are by noted Godowsky scholar, Dr. Millan Sachania.

The Godowsky Collection, Vol. 4 - Carl Fischer, LLC
This is the Godowsky Collection most musicians have been waiting for. Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) was one of the most celebrated pianists of the golden age of the piano virtuoso. A prodigious arranger, transcriber and adapter of existing keyboard music, he was also a gifted composer. <P>This fourth volume is the distingushed series devoted to his piano works, contains some of Godowsky's best known transcriptions (Albeniz- Tango, Op. 165 and Triana from lberia, Bizet- Adagietto from L'Arlesienne, Bohm- Still Wie Die Nacht, Kreisler- Rondino )on a Theme by Beethoven), Saint-Saens- Le Cygne from The Carnival of the Animals, Richard Strauss- Standchen, Op. 17, No. 2, von Weber- nvitation to the Dance, Op. 65, et.al.) and his remarkable Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Johann Strauss, Jr., as well as his own teriffic Waltz Poems. <P>The pianistic wizardry on view in this collection is quite simply, mind boggling. This is a volume any serious musician and pianist will want to own and treasure. As before, the excellent biographical sketch and notes on this pieces are by noted Godowsky scholar, Dr. Millan Sachania.

The Godowsky Collection, Vol.5 - Carl Fischer Music
The Godowsky Collection Vol. 5 <BR>46 Miniatures for Piano–Four Hands <BR>by Leopold Godowsky <P>This volume features Godowsky’s 46 miniatures for four-hands where the student in five-finger position plays the "primo" and the teacher plays an interesting and sometimes challenging accompaniment in the "secondo". Beautifully written, Rachmaninoff used these miniatures with his own students. Complete with scholarly commentary and detailed analysis, this handsome book should be part of any piano teacher’s library.

The Godowsky Collection: Transcriptions, Arrangement and Cadenzas - Carl Fischer Music Dist
This second volume devoted to the music of Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938), concentrates on his celebrated transcriptions and arrangements of the music of Schubert and Bach, and his cadenzas for the Mozart Piano Concertos. Of particular interest to pianists, the volume contains twelve of Godowsky's delightful arrangements for solo piano of famous Schubert songs, including: Wohin?, Gute Nacht, Litanei, An Mignon and Ungeduld. <P>Also in this book are Godowsky's challenging piano versions of three of the solo violin sonatas and three of the cello sonatas of J.S. Bach. The Mozart Concerto cadenzas included are for K.365, K.488 and K.491. As with Volume One, the fascinating and extensive notes are by noted Godowsky scholar, Dr. Millan Sachania.