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GOLDMARK, KARL (1832- )

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GOLDMARK, KARL (1832- ) , Hungarian composer, was See also:born at Keszthely-am-Plattensee, in See also:Hungary, on the 18th of May 1832. His See also:father, a poor cantor in the See also:local Jewish See also:synagogue, was unable to assist to any extent financially in the development of his son's talents. Yet in the See also:household much See also:music was made, and on a cheap See also:violin and See also:home-made See also:flute, constructed by Goldmark himself from reeds cut from the See also:river-See also:bank, the future composer gave See also:rein to his musical ideas. His See also:talent was fostered by the See also:village schoolmaster, by whose aid he was able to enter the music-school of the Oedenburger Verein. Here he remained but a See also:short See also:time, his success at a school See also:concert finally determining his parents to allow him to devote himself entirely to music. In 1844, then, he went to See also:Vienna, where Jansa took up his cause and eventually obtained for him See also:admission to the conservatorium. For two years Goldmark worked under Jansa at the violin, and on the outbreak of the revolution, after studying all the orchestral See also:instruments he obtained an engagement in the See also:orchestra at Raab. There, on the See also:capitulation of Raab, he was to have been shot for a See also:spy, and was only saved at the See also:eleventh See also:hour by the happy arrival of a former colleague. In 185o Goldmark See also:left Raab for Vienna, where from his friend Mittrich he obtained his first real knowledge of the See also:classics. There, too, he devoted himself to See also:composition. In 1857 Goldmark, who was then engaged in the Karl-theater See also:band, gave a concert of his own See also:works with such success that his first quartet attracted very See also:general See also:attention. Then followed the " Sakuntala " and " Penthesilea " overtures, which show how See also:Wagner's See also:influence had supervened upon his previous domination by Mendelssohn, and the delightful " Landliche Hochzeit " See also:symphony, which carried his fame abroad.

Goldmark's reputation was now made, and very largely increased by the See also:

production at Vienna in 1875 of his first and best See also:opera, See also:Die Konigin von Saba. Over this opera he spent seven years. Its popularity is still almost as See also:great as ever. It was followed in See also:November 1886. also at Vienna, by See also:Merlin, much of which has been re-written since then. A third opera, a version of See also:Dickens's See also:Cricket on the See also:Hearth, was given by the Royal Carl See also:Rosa See also:Company in See also:London in 19oo. Goldmark's chamber music has not made much lasting impression, but the overtures " See also:Im Friihling," " See also:Prometheus See also:Bound," and " Sapho " are fairly well known. A " See also:programme " seems essential to him. In opera he is most certainly at his best, and as an orchestral colourist he ranks among the very highest.

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