Liszt La Campanella Godowsky Rec 1913

(This performance of Liszt’s La Campanella was recorded in April of 1913 during Godowky’s first recording session.) Leopold Godowsky was born on February 13 1870 in Lithuania. As a young child he was first encouraged to study the violin but even though he became proficient on that instrument, his attraction to the piano became too strong to ignore. His first composition, a minuet, was composed at age five. Godowsky writes, “The middle section was a perfect canon. This is noteworthy because up to that tim