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First name: Carl
Last name: Goldmark
Dates: 1830-1915
Category: Quintet
Nationality: Hungarian
Opus name: Piano Quintet no. 2 in Cis Minor Opus 54 (1914)
Publisher: Silvertrust
Peculiarities: imslp Petrucci; Merton 5723; http://www.kammermusikverlag.de/b_liste_gk.php?IDbes=3500
Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark (Hungarian: Goldmark Károly) and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark; May 18, 1830, Keszthely – January 2, 1915, Vienna) was a Hungarian composer. Goldmark came from a large Jewish family, one of 20 children. His father, Ruben Goldmark, was a chazan to the Jewish congregation at Keszthely, Hungary. Karl Goldmark\\\'s older brother Joseph Goldmark became a physician and was later involved in the Revolution of 1848, forced to emigrated to the United States. Karl Goldmark\\\'s early training as a violinist was at the musical academy of Sopron (1842–44). He continued his music studies there and two years later was sent by his father to Vienna, where he was able to study for some eighteen months with Leopold Jansa before his money ran out. He prepared himself for entry first to the Vienna Technische Hochschule and then to the Vienna Conservatory to study the violin with Joseph Böhm and harmony with Gottfried Preyer. The Revolution of 1848 forced the Conservatory to close down. He was largely self-taught as a composer. He supported himself in Vienna playing the violin in theatre orchestras, at the Carlstheater and the privately supported Viennese institution, the Theater in der Josefstadt, which gave him practical experience with orchestration, an art he more than mastered. He also gave lessons: Jean Sibelius studied with him briefly. Goldmark\\\'s first concert in Vienna (1858) met with hostility, and he returned to Budapest, returning to Vienna in 1860. To make ends meet, Goldmark also pursued a side career as a music journalist. \\\"His writing is distinctive for his even-handed promotion of both Brahms and Wagner, at a time when audiences (and most critics) were solidly in one composer\\\'s camp or the other and viewed those on the opposing side with undisguised hostility.\\\" (Liebermann 1997) Johannes Brahms and Goldmark developed a friendship as Goldmark\\\'s prominence in Vienna grew. Goldmark, however would ultimately distance himself because of Brahms\\\' prickly personality. 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. He was made an honorary member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Budapest and shared with Richard Strauss an honorary membership in the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome. 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. It includes the String Quintet in A minor Op. 9 that made his first reputation in Vienna, the Violin Sonata in D major Op. 25, two Piano Quintets in B-flat major Opp. 30 and 54, the Cello Sonata Op. 39, and the work that first brought Goldmark\\\'s name into prominence in the Viennese musical world, the String Quartet in B-flat Op. 8 (his only work in that genre). Karl Goldmark\\\'s nephew Rubin Goldmark (1872–1936), a pupil of Dvo?ák, was also a composer, who spent his career in New York. Goldmark died in Vienna and is buried in the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery), along with many other notable composers. Many of his autograph manuscripts are in the collection of the National Széchényi Library, with \\\"G\\\" catalogue numbers attached to various works (including those without opus number.)