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Ruby gold mark

Rubin Goldmark (born August 15, 1872 in New York City , † March 6, 1936 there ) was an American pianist and composer .

Life

Rubin Goldmark was the son of the lawyer and cantor Leo Goldmark, who had emigrated to New York, and was the nephew of the composer Karl Goldmark . His father Leo was one of the founders of the New York Symphony Society, whose house was the city's musical meeting place, which shaped the young Rubin musically at an early age. After taking piano lessons with Alfred von Livonius and at the College of the City of New York, at the age of seventeen he moved to his “famous” uncle Karl Goldmark in Vienna (1889-1891) to study piano and piano with Johann Nepomuk Fuchs , Robert Fuchs and Anton Door at the Conservatory. Study composition. After less than two years he returned to New York, where he continued his piano studies with the pianist and composer Rafael Joseffy, who emigrated to New York in 1879 (to whom he later dedicated his piano quartet op. 12). After Dvořák's arrival in the USA, he became one of his first composition students. As early as the school year 1893/94 he held “Mrs. Thurbers National Conservatory of Music “Piano lessons and theory lessons. In 1895 he took over the management of the Colorado Springs Conservatory. Here he achieved initial success with his symphonic tone poem Hiawatha (after Longfellow's world premiere in Boston on January 13, 1900). He returned to New York around 1905 (?), Where he taught privately until he was appointed composition teacher at the Juilliard School in New York City (1924). In 1915 he composed the (later orchestrated) violin piece "Call of the Plains". In 1922 the only work that is still performed with a certain regularity was written, a Negro Rhapsody (first performed January 18, 1923 by the New York Philharmony). It was classified as "anachronistic" by its contemporary critics. His fame is based on his teaching activities - he has u. a. George Gershwin , Aaron Copland and Frederick Jacobi gave composition lessons. On the twentieth anniversary of his death, the College of the City of New York's new music center was named after him.

He made numerous trips through the USA and Canada with lectures and concerts. His compositions include a string quartet, a piano trio (op.1), a violin sonata, a romance for cello and piano (op.3), various orchestral pieces, piano music and songs. His piano quartet (op.9-12) won the 1909 prize for chamber music named after Paderewski .

Web links

• Rubin Goldmark sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project