OBITUARY
LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
NEW YORK, November 22. The death has occurred of Leopold Godowsky, pianist and composer.
Leopold Godowsky was born at Vilna, in Russia, in 1870,? and studied at the Berlin Hochschule in 1884 and later under Camille Saint-Saens. His first public appearance was at the age of nine. He toured in Russia, Poland, and Germany, and first appeared in the United States in 1884. He remained there until 1886 and in 1895 accepted an invitation to become director of the piano department of Chicago Conservatorium cf-Music. He remained in this post until 1900. He was appointed Director' of the Imperial Meisterschule for Piano at the Imperial Academy of Music in Vienna in 1909. In 1912 he became editor-in-chief of the Art Publication Society of St. Louis, and he toured extensively through four continents. He wrote 52 studies on the Chopin Etudes, published 24 pieces under the title of "Renaissance," 24 Walzermasken, a sonata in E minor, three "symphonic metamorphoses," 12 pieces foff the violin, various transcriptions of Bach works for the piano, transcriptions of Schubert's songs for the piano, and many original piano pieces. He married, in 1891, Miss Freda Saxe, of New York.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1938, Page 11
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