Alt Wien (Old Vienna)

Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) was a Jewish naturalised-American pianist and composer, and was said to be the first person to add “anything of significance” to the Keyboard genre since Franz Liszt. Famously, hisStudies on Chopin’s Etudes are considered to be among the hardest works for Piano ever written.

Written in a single day, Alt Wien (Old Vienna) is No. 11 of his 1920 suite, Triaontameron,and is one of his best loved easy works for solo Piano.