Schubert: Piano Transcriptions

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) • Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938)

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) • Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)

One of the great players of his time, the Polish-American pianist Leopold Godowsky was born in Lithuania in 1870. The first signs of his exceptional musical ability were clear by the age of three and he wrote his first compositions four years later, in 1879 making his first public appearance as a pianist. There followed a series of concerts in Germany and Poland and, in 1884, his first appearance in the United States in Boston. In 1886, hoping to study with Liszt, he returned to Europe, but, learning of the latter’s death from a newspaper, he travelled, instead, to Paris, with the object