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Leopold Godowsky

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Leopold Godowsky (13 February 1870 – 21 November 1938) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer, and teacher. [1]

92 relations: Abbey Simon, Abram Chasins, Alice Frisca, American Piano Company, Apolinary Szeluto, Appian Publications & Recordings, Arthur Rubinstein, Širvintos, Žasliai, Berlin, Berlin University of the Arts, Boris Berezovsky (pianist), Camille Saint-Saëns, Canada, Chicago, Claudio Arrau, Composer, Dagmar Godowsky, Duo-Art, Eastman School of Music, Emil Gilels, Ernst Rudorff, Fannie Charles Dillon, Feldsher, Ferruccio Busoni, Frances Gershwin, Francesco Libetta, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Gamelan, Gelvonai, George Gershwin, Greenwood Publishing Group, Harold C. Schonberg, Hauptstimme, Heinrich Neuhaus, Hollywood, Issay Dobrowen, James Huneker, Jan Smeterlin, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jews, Josef Hofmann, Kislev, Kodachrome, Konstantin Scherbakov, Leopold Godowsky Jr., Leopold Mannes, Lithuania, ..., London, Los Angeles, Marc-André Hamelin, Maurice Ravel, Mentorship, Merkinė, Milan, Ovide Musin, Paris, Passacaglia (Godowsky), Paul Wells (musician), Philadelphia, Phonograph record, Pianist, Player piano, Polish Americans, Rabbi, Radu Lupu, Rudolph Valentino, Russian Empire, Scherzo No. 4 (Chopin), Seattle, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Silent film, Stage fright, Studies on Chopin's Études, Sviatoslav Richter, Symphony No. 8 (Schubert), Teresa Carreño, Tina Lerner, Triakontameron, University of Maryland Libraries, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vilna Governorate, Vilnius, Violin, Virtuoso, Vladimir de Pachmann, Vladimir Horowitz, Wall Street Crash of 1929, World War I. Expand index (42 more) »

Abbey Simon

Abbey Henry Simon (born January 8, 1920) is an American concert pianist, teacher, and recording artist.

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Abram Chasins

Abram Chasins (August 17, 1903 – June 21, 1987) was an American composer, pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, musicologist, music broadcaster, radio executive and author.

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Alice Frisca

Alice Frisca (March 7, 1900 — January 24, 1960) was the professional name of Alice Mayer, an American pianist.

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American Piano Company

American Piano Company (abbr. Ampico) was an American piano manufacturer located in East Rochester, New York, which was known from the beginning for the production of high quality player pianos.

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Apolinary Szeluto

Apolinary Szeluto (23 July 1884 – 22 August 1966) was a Polish pianist and composer of the Mloda Polska style.

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Appian Publications & Recordings

Appian Publications & Recordings is a British company specialising in the restoration and re-issue of early recordings of classical music.

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Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish American classical pianist.

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Širvintos

Širvintos (Szyrwinty) is a city in Vilnius County in the eastern part of Lithuania.

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Žasliai

Žasliai (זאָסלע Zosle) is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Berlin University of the Arts

The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe.

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Boris Berezovsky (pianist)

Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky (Бори́с Вади́мович Березо́вский) is a Russian pianist.

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Dagmar Godowsky

Dagmar Godowsky (November 24, 1897 – February 13, 1975) was an American silent film actress born in Chicago to Polish composer Leopold Godowsky and Frederica Saxe.

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Duo-Art

Duo-Art was one of the leading reproducing piano technologies of the early 20th century, the others being American Piano Company (Ampico), introduced in 1913 too, and Welte-Mignon in 1905.

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Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is a comprehensive school of music located in Rochester, New York.

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Emil Gilels

Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (sometimes transliterated Hilels; Емі́ль Григо́рович Гі́лельс, Эми́ль Григо́рьевич Ги́лельс, Emiľ Grigorievič Gileľs; 19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985), HSL, PAU, was a Soviet pianist, widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.

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Ernst Rudorff

Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff (January 18, 1840 – December 31, 1916) was a German composer and music teacher, also a founder of nature protection movement.

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Fannie Charles Dillon

Fannie Charles Dillon (March 16, 1881February 21, 1947) was an American pianist, music educator and composer.

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Feldsher

According to the World Health Organization, a feldsher (Feldscher, Felczer, Felčar, фельдшер, Fältskär) is a health care professional who provides various medical services limited to emergency treatment and ambulance practice.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) (given names: Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.

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Frances Gershwin

Frances Gershwin Godowsky (December 6, 1906 – January 18, 1999) was an American singer, musician, Broadway performer and artist.

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Francesco Libetta

Francesco Libetta (born 16 October 1968) is an Italian pianist, composer and conductor.

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc;Liszt's Hungarian passport spelt his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a Ritter (knight) by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt. 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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Gamelan

Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of Java and Bali in Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.

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Gelvonai

Gelvonai is a town in Širvintos district municipality, Vilnius County, east Lithuania.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.

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Harold C. Schonberg

Harold Charles Schonberg (November 29, 1915 – July 26, 2003) was an American music critic and journalist, most notably for The New York Times.

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Hauptstimme

In music, (German for primary voice) or is the main voice, chief part; i.e., the contrapuntal or melodic line of primary importance, in opposition to.

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Heinrich Neuhaus

Heinrich Gustavovich Neuhaus (Ге́нрих Густа́вович Нейга́уз, Genrikh Gustavovič Nejgauz; 10 October 1964) was a pianist and pedagogue of German extraction.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Issay Dobrowen

Issay Alexandrovich Dobrowen (Исай Александрович Добровейн; in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire9 December 1953, Oslo, Norway), born Itschok Zorachovitch Barabeitchik, was a Russian/Soviet-Norwegian pianist, composer and conductor.

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James Huneker

James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic.

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Jan Smeterlin

Jan Smeterlin (7 February 1892 in Bielsko, Austro-Hungarian Empire – 18 January 1967 in London) was a Polish concert pianist.

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (born Giovanni Battista Lulli,; 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France.

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Josef Hofmann

Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957) was a Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.

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Kislev

Kislev (Hebrew: כִּסְלֵו, Standard Kislev Tiberian Kislēw; also Chislev) is the third month of the civil year and the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar.

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Kodachrome

Kodachrome is a brand name for a non-substantive, color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935.

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Konstantin Scherbakov

Konstantin Scherbakov (11 June 1963 in Barnaul, Siberia, Russian SFSR) is a Russian pianist.

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Leopold Godowsky Jr.

Leopold Godowsky Jr. (May 27, 1900 – February 18, 1983) was an American violinist and chemist, who together with Leopold Mannes created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.

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Leopold Mannes

Leopold Damrosch Mannes (December 26, 1899 – August 11, 1964) was an American musician, who, together with Leopold Godowsky, Jr., created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Marc-André Hamelin

Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ (born September 5, 1961), is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Mentorship

Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person.

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Merkinė

Merkinė is a town in the Dzūkija National Park in Lithuania, located at the confluence of the Merkys and Nemunas rivers.

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Ovide Musin

Ovide Musin (1854–1929) was a Belgian violinist and composer.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Passacaglia (Godowsky)

Passacaglia is a solo piano composition by the composer Leopold Godowsky.

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Paul Wells (musician)

Paul Wells (July 22, 1888 – May 1927) was an American pianist, composer, music educator, and writer on music.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pianist

A pianist is an individual musician who plays the piano.

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Player piano

A player piano (also known as pianola) is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music recorded on perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls, with more modern implementations using MIDI.

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Polish Americans

Polish Americans are Americans who have total or partial Polish ancestry.

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Rabbi

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah.

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Radu Lupu

Radu Lupu, CBE (born November 30, 1945) is a Romanian concert pianist.

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Rudolph Valentino

Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), professionally known as Rudolph Valentino, was an Italian actor in America who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. He was an early pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover" or simply as "Valentino".

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Scherzo No. 4 (Chopin)

Frédéric Chopin composed his Scherzo No.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Stage fright

Stage fright or performance anxiety is the anxiety, fear, or persistent phobia which may be aroused in an individual by the requirement to perform in front of an audience, whether actually or potentially (for example, when performing before a camera).

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Studies on Chopin's Études

Studies on Chopin's Études is a set of 53 arrangements of Chopin's études by Leopold Godowsky.

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Sviatoslav Richter

Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (svʲjətɐsˈlaf tʲɪɐˈfʲiləvʲɪtɕ ˈrʲixtər; – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet pianist of Russian-German origin, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.

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Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)

Franz Schubert's Symphony No.

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Teresa Carreño

María Teresa Carreño García de Sena (22 December 185312 June 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.

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Tina Lerner

Tina Lerner (June 5, 1889 — died after 1947; in Cyrillic, Тина Лернер) was a Russian-American concert pianist born in Odessa.

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Triakontameron

Triakontameron is a suite of 30 pieces for piano composed in 1920 by Leopold Godowsky; each was written in a single day, and all are written in three-four time.

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University of Maryland Libraries

The University of Maryland Libraries is the largest university library in the Washington, D.C. - Baltimore area.

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University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817.

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Vilna Governorate

The Vilna Governorate (1795–1915; also known as Lithuania-Vilnius Governorate from 1801 until 1840; Виленская губерния, Vilenskaya guberniya, Vilniaus gubernija, gubernia wileńska) or Government of Vilnius was a governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire created after the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.

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Vilnius

Vilnius (see also other names) is the capital of Lithuania and its largest city, with a population of 574,221.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Virtuoso

A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso or, "virtuous", Late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus, "virtue", "excellence", "skill", or "manliness") is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.

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Vladimir de Pachmann

Vladimir von Pachmann or Pachman (27 July 18486 January 1933) was a pianist of Russian-German ethnicity, especially noted for performing the works of Chopin, and also for his eccentric on-stage style.

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Vladimir Horowitz

Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (r; r; November 5, 1989)Schonberg, 1992 was a Russian-born American classical pianist and composer.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Godowsky

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