Leopold Godowsky
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Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. 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
Godowsky (1915)
Godowsky (1935; by Carl Van Vechten)
A page from Godowsky's highly challenging Studies on Chopin's Études (an arrangement of Op. 25, No. 1)
Portrait of the composer at the piano by Polish painter Jan Ciągliński (1911)
Feldsher
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A feldsher is a health care professional who provides various medical services limited to emergency treatment and ambulance practice. As such, a feldsher is one kind of mid-level medical practitioner.
Leopold Godowsky
…Khana-Sheyna Godowsky (née Levin, 1848–1918), from Gelvonai. His parents were married on 4 December 1868 in Širvintos. Godowsky's father, a respected feldsher, died in a cholera epidemic only eighteen months after his son's birth, and Leopold was raised by his mother and foster-parents, Louis and Minna…
German Feldscher in the Franco-Prussian War 1870
A feldsher performing an amputation. Engraving from 1540