Leopold Godowsky was a prominent pianist-virtuoso and composer.
Godowsky was actively engaged in educational science and innovation practices. Pedagogical practice shaped his technical principles that he would profess throughout his life: ‘weight playing’, muscular freedom and movements' retrenchmen

Leopold Godowsky was constantly giving concerts. At the zenith of his career, he had a truly immense repertoire, including some twenty programmes in which not a single composition was repeated. Wherever he settled (New York, Berlin, Vienna), his home became a centre of attraction for the most distinguished members of the artistic world. Godowsky supported Edvard Grieg and Jan Sibelius, and was friends with Joseph Hoffmann, Fritz Kreisler, Theodor Leschetitzky and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

To mark the 155^th birth jubilee of Leopold Godowsky, we have prepared a musical selection made up of works performed by the pianist and digitized from music media that are stored in the мuseum Sound Library.