---
title: "Wanda Landowska"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Wanda Landowska"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Pleyel et Cie","harpsichord revival vs. historical construction","Frank Hubbard"]
---


Polish-French harpsichordist (1879–1959) whose collaboration with piano manufacturer [[entity-pleyel-et-cie|Pleyel et Cie]] produced the steel-framed "Grand Modèle de Concert" — the single most-cited exemplar instrument of the early-20th-century piano-derived harpsichord-"revival" construction paradigm, and the instrument style the Hubbard/Dowd historical-reconstruction reversal was implicitly built against. Matters to this vault as the performer whose taste and influence kept a piano-frame construction choice in place as the field's dominant style for roughly sixty years.

## References
- [[claim-landowska-pleyel-grand-modele-de-concert-exemplar-revival-instrument]]