Leopold Godowsky (Leopold Godowski) (February 13, 1870–November 21, 1938), was a famed Polish-American pianist, composer, and teacher. He has sometimes been described as the "Pianist of Pianists". Life Godowsky was born to Jewish parents in Soz?y, near Vilna, in what was then Russia territory but is now part of Lithuania. He considered himself of Polish heritage. He became a naturalised American. He is therefore now considered to be "Polish-American." As a child, he received some lessons in basic piano playing and music theory; at age fourteen, he entered the Königliche Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he studied under Ernst Rudorff, but left after three months. Otherwise, he was self-taught. His career as a concert pianist, which eventually would take him to every inhabited continent except Australia, began at age ten. In 1886, after a tour of North America, he returned to Europe, intending to study with Franz

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