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NOTED PIANIST DIES IN N. Y. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 21. Leopold Godowsky, noted pianist and composer, died in Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, yesterday. He was sixty-eight, and had undergone an operation recently. He is survived by two daughters and one son, another having committed suicide in 1923. His wife, Mrs. Frieda Haxe Godowsky, died in 1933. Godowsky, a native of Russia, studied in Berlin and Paris and made his first public appearance at the ago of ten. Thereafter he made extensive public tours, international in scope. He was a director of the Chicago Conservatory of Music from 1895 to 1900 and in 1909 was appointed by the Emperor of Austria as director of the Imperial Royal Meisterschule for Piano at the Imperial Royal Academy of Music in Vienna. From the Emperor he also received appointment as Imperial Royal Professor of the highest rank.
