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Encyclopedia > Rubin Goldmark

Rubin Goldmark (August 15, 1872 (New York City) - March 6, 1936 (New York City)) was an American composer, pianist, and educator. He studied composition with Robert Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory, and later with Antonin Dvorak at the National Conservatory in New York. August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World[1], Gotham Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area    - City 1,214. ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World[1], Gotham Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area    - City 1,214. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Pianist Glenn Gould, Toronto, 1974 A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ... Robert Fuchs (February 15, 1847 – February 19, 1927) was an Austrian composer and Professor of Music Theory at the Vienna Conservatory. ... The Konservatorium Wien is the music conservatory in Vienna. ... Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák  listen (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of classical music. ...


Goldmark taught composition at the National Conservatory and at the College Conservatory in Colorado, and spent the last twelve years of his life as head of the composition department at Juilliard. His students included Aaron Copland and George Gershwin, and thus Rubin Goldmark helped link the 19th-century European Romantic music to 20th-century American music. The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ... Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. ... George Gershwin photograph by Edward Steichen in 1927. ...


He also undertook many tours in the USA and Canada, during which he gave recitals and lectured on music. Rubin Goldmark's compositions include a string quartet, a piano trio, a violin sonata, several orchestral pieces, piano music, and songs. His Piano Quartet in A, Op.9, won the 1909 Paderewski Prize for chamber music. However, none of his music remains in the standard repertory. The resident string quartet of the Library of Congress in 1963 A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group. ... A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, almost always a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. ... A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, often (but not always) accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque. ... A piano quartet is a musical ensemble consisting of a piano and three other instruments, or a piece written for such a group. ... Ignacy Jan Paderewski Ignacy Jan Paderewski (November 6, 1860 – June 29, 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer and politician, the third Prime Minister of Poland. ...


Rubin Goldmark was the nephew of composer Karl Goldmark. Karl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark, (born in Keszthely, Hungary on May 18, 1830; died in Vienna on January 2, 1915) was a Hungarian composer from a large Jewish family, one of 20 children. ...


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Rubin Goldmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (206 words)
Rubin Goldmark (August 15, 1872 (New York City) - March 6, 1936 (New York City)) was an American composer, pianist, and educator.
Goldmark taught composition at the National Conservatory and at the College Conservatory in Colorado, and spent the last twelve years of his life as head of the composition department at Juilliard.
Rubin Goldmark was the nephew of composer Karl Goldmark.
Karl Goldmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (865 words)
Karl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark, (born in Keszthely, Hungary on May 18, 1830; died in Vienna on January 2, 1915) was a Hungarian composer from a large Jewish family, one of 20 children.
Among the musical influences Goldmark absorbed was the inescapable one, for a musical colorist, of Richard Wagner, whose anti-semitism stood in the way of any genuine warmth between them; in 1872 Goldmark took a prominent role in the formation of the Vienna Wagner Society.
Goldmark's chamber music, in which the influences of Schumann and Mendelssohn are paramount, although critically well-received in his lifetime, is now rarely heard.
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