Mozart: Turkish March (from Sonata in A, K. 331)
Lewis Richards, harpsichordist

Recorded on the afternoon of May 21, 1925, in Room 3 of the Brunswick-Balke-Collander Company's studios at 799 Seventh Avenue, New York City, and issued in Brunswick's popular series as 2930. (Room 3 was the first of Brunswick's studios to be fitted with electrical recording equipment.)

The Michigan-born pianist Lewis Richards (1881-1940) began giving recitals in 1923 with a Pleyel harpsichord that he had acquired in Europe. He was the first harpsichordist to play a concerto with an American orchestra - the Haydn D major with the Minneapolis Symphony in 1923 - and the first person in modern times to play a harpsichord at the White House, for President Calvin Coolidge, in 1927. That same year he became the head of the music department at Michigan State College in East Lansing, Michigan.

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