Leopold Godowsky
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Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. was a Lithuanian-born American virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher. 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.
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)
Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)
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Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759, commonly known as the Unfinished Symphony, is a musical composition that Schubert started in 1822 but left with only two movements—though he lived for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages orchestrated, also survives.
Third movement, first page, facsimile, 1885, in J. R. von Herbeck's biography
Franz Schubert Memorial in Vienna. Schubert lived here in 1822–23 with his friend Franz von Schober and wrote the Unfinished Symphony.