Martha Goldstein

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Martha Goldstein in the 1970s

Martha Goldstein (née Svendsen ; born June 10, 1919 in Baltimore , Maryland ; † February 14, 2014 in Seattle , Washington ) was an American harpsichordist and pianist whose musical repertoire ranged from the baroque Johann Sebastian Bach to Domenico Scarlatti to the romantic virtuoso Piano literature by Frédéric Chopin , Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms extended. As a representative of aDue to historical performance practice , she made her recordings mainly on contemporary instruments.

education

Martha Goldstein received her education at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and at the Juilliard School in New York. Her teachers were James Friskin , Mieczyslaw Munz, Audrey Plitt and Eliza Woods. She won first prize in a Steinway piano competition and later taught herself at the Peabody Conservatory for 20 years.

repertoire

Martha Goldstein's musical specialty was on the one hand the harpsichord , on which she played works by Johann Sebastian Bach, also in the transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni , as well as works by Johann Jakob Froberger or Domenico Zipoli , and on the other hand the romantic piano music by Chopin, Liszt and Brahms, which she, as a representative of historical performance practice, performed internationally on original instruments in the 1970s and recorded them on records in order to give an impression of the original sound and playing technique of that time, in the first half of the 19th century.

Interpretations and recordings

Martha Goldstein played on a grand piano by Sébastien Érard for her recordings of Chopin's etudes and works by Franz Liszt . She released numerous recordings on the record label Pandora Records :

  • Martha Goldstein: The Italian Harpsichord
  • JS Bach: Flute sonatas . Complete and Authentic Works from the Neue Bach Gesellschaft . With Alex Murray ( transverse flute ) and Martha Goldstein (harpsichord)
  • JS Bach: Flute sonatas. Incomplete and Controversial Sonatas (Murray and Goldstein)
  • JS Bach / Martha Goldstein - The Sound of the Keyboard Lute
  • JS Bach: Music for Solo Traverso, Volume I (Murray and Goldstein)
  • F. Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10, Op. 25th
  • J. Brahms: Waltz

Audio samples

In these recordings Martha Goldstein plays an Italian harpsichord (replica) and a piano by Sébastien Érard from 1851:

Web links

Commons : Martha Goldstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Seattle Times, Jan. 27/28. February 2014
  2. ↑ website duck.fm (April 2, 2014)
  3. ^ Crystal Record Company (ed.): Directory of New Music , Crystal Record Company, 1977, p. 71
  4. ↑ Historical Instruments website (April 2, 2014)
  5. ↑ website duck.fm (April 2, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Goldstein, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Svendsen, Martha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American harpsichordist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2014
Place of death Seattle , Washington