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Restitution, Restoration and Repertoire: New Findings in the Wanda Landowska Collection at the Library of Congress, Panel + Performance, US Library of Congress, 25 May 2022, 7.00pm (ET)
Wanda Landowska
Photo Credit: Hersch
Carla Shapreau, Senior Fellow, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Bret Werb, Music Curator, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Chris Hartten, Assistant Section Head, Acquisitions & Processing, Library of Congress
Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford, curator, Musical Instruments Collection
Thomas Sheehan, Organist and Associate Director of Music, Washington National Cathedral
Barbara Wolf, Wolf Instruments, restoration and conservation
Wanda Landowska waited until the bombs were in close range before she fled her home outside of Paris on June 10, 1940, leaving behind her rare musical instruments and most of her vast music library, all of which were confiscated by the Nazi Sonderstab Musik. A Pleyel harpsichord was recovered in Bavaria by the U.S. Army after the war and is today preserved in the Library of Congress's Wanda Landowska Collection. Carla Shapreau traces the path of Landowska's looted harpsichord through war-torn Europe, its rescue, and return. Bret Werb will discuss Landowska's lesser-known activities as a composer, showcasing some of the creative work preserved among her papers at the Library of Congress, now curated by Library archivist Christopher Hartten. The conversations introduce performances of rarely-heard Landowska compositions by Thomas Sheehan.
The event will take place in the Coolidge Auditorium. Please register here for this free event.
Source:
https://loc.gov/concerts/landowska-collection-may25.html