Theodore Leschetizky

From THEODORE LESCHETIZKY, 1903 by Angèle Potocka

THEODORE LESZETYCKI (or Leschetizky, as the name is now spelled)¹ was born on June 22, 1830, near Lemberg, Poland, on an estate belonging to a younger branch of the Potocki family.     (Etc.)

      ¹ To make its correct pronunciation more evident to foreigners.

Theodore Leschetizky : an Intimate Study of the Man and the Musician
by Comtesse Angele Potocka ; tr. from the French by Genevieve Seymur Lincoln.
New York : The Century Co. 1903, p. 3.

George Bernard Shaw to Mary Lawton, 11 November 1938

'The old wooden pianos which made the fame of Brodwoods, and for which Beethoven and Chopin composed, had been supplanted by a monster called the iron grand, now a steel one. Leschetizsky, the greatest teacher of that day, realised that a steel piano needed steel fingers to play it. He taught Paderewski a touch undreamt of by Wieck or Kullak, . . (etc).'

The Paderewski memoirs,
by Ignace Jan Paderewski and Mary Lawton.
London : Collins 1939, p. 15.

From The Legacy of Leschetizky, August 1945 by Paul Wittgenstein

How rarely has any teacher since Czerny (who was his own master) formed so many celebrated pupils as my old master Leschetizky !  From Essipoff to Paderewski, from Brailowsky to Schnabel and Gabrilowitsch, to name only the most prominent of all.

Musical Courier, August 1945, page 13.