Wanda Landowska’s last pupil?

Wanda Landowska’s last pupil?

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norman lebrecht

September 15, 2014

We have received news of the death of the harpsichordist Hilda Jonas, who studied with Landowska in Paris after being exiled from Germany in 1934. Wanda died in 1959. Hilda was 101 years old.

She performed concertos with major US orchestras and founded a harpsichord festival in Ohio in the 1960s.

You can read her life story here.

 

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