Notes from the Life of a Viennese Composer, Karl GoldmarkA. and C. Boni, 1927 - 280 páginas |
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Carl Goldmark. TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION He was born in a little Hungarian village , and never went to school . Except for a few months ' instruction in music , he was , in every field , practically self - taught . If genius , as some ...
Carl Goldmark. TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION He was born in a little Hungarian village , and never went to school . Except for a few months ' instruction in music , he was , in every field , practically self - taught . If genius , as some ...
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... never failed to greet him in all its springtime radiance . The popularity of The Queen of Sheba , the violin concertos , The Rustic Wed- ding , and other compositions never faded . Although Goldmark was born in Keszthely , he should be ...
... never failed to greet him in all its springtime radiance . The popularity of The Queen of Sheba , the violin concertos , The Rustic Wed- ding , and other compositions never faded . Although Goldmark was born in Keszthely , he should be ...
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... never lost it . You cannot imagine how terrific the mud was in winter in a Hungarian village , some seventy years ago . The village street was im- passable . I was being taken home from some- where riding astride on the back of a man ...
... never lost it . You cannot imagine how terrific the mud was in winter in a Hungarian village , some seventy years ago . The village street was im- passable . I was being taken home from some- where riding astride on the back of a man ...
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... never to go to school . Youth ! Ah , lovely dream , dreamed , alas , but once ! Who has not seen how youth can be spoilt and embittered for a poor child . In school , at home , he is overburdened by work unsuited to his years and ...
... never to go to school . Youth ! Ah , lovely dream , dreamed , alas , but once ! Who has not seen how youth can be spoilt and embittered for a poor child . In school , at home , he is overburdened by work unsuited to his years and ...
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... never bothered by any anxiety or trouble about school . It would be silly to conclude from what I have said that I do not appreciate the need of schools . Later on , when I began composing , did I not have the painful experience of ...
... never bothered by any anxiety or trouble about school . It would be silly to conclude from what I have said that I do not appreciate the need of schools . Later on , when I began composing , did I not have the painful experience of ...
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already Anton Rubinstein appeared artistic asked Austrian Beethoven Brahms brother called cannon Carl Theater cetera chorus climbed composed composition concert concertmaster conductor Conservatory Cornelius Dessoff director door dress rehearsal florins Franz Franz Liszt Franz Schubert Fusch gave German give given glacier Gmunden Götz grew Hanslick happened hear heard heart Hellmesberger Hellmesberger Quartet Herbeck Hungarian Ignaz Brüll Italian Jansa KARL GOLDMARK Karoline Bettelheim large number later libretto Liszt lived look matter Mendelssohn ment morning mountain musicians never occasion Ödenburg once opera house orchestra Pedrotti performance Peter Cornelius Philharmonic piano quartet played Queen of Sheba Reichstag Richard Wagner Rubinstein Sakuntala sang scene Schubert shouted singer singing soldiers Speidel stage manager stood suddenly summer superb Symphony teacher thing tion took trio twenty Vienna Court Opera Viennese village violin violinist walked weeks whole woods young
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Página 24 - The square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides ; as, 5033 402+302.
Página x - Goldmark's music was not his only achievement. He was also a clever writer. But Goldmark, the writer on music, has been entirely forgotten. The Master himself refers in his Memoirs to some of his musical criticisms. They are intelligent and convincing. In them he emphatically maintained that Jewish-oriental-exotic music could exert a stimulating influence upon our western art, and he was one of the first to do it.
Página 65 - But the long years of starvation were not without serious consequences to my health. I had existed one winter simply on potatoes, without any bread, the following summer on curds and raw cucumbers etc.
Página 109 - On one occasion a considerable number of prominent musicians had been invited to meet in the restaurant of the Musikverein for the purpose of founding a musical art society. Liszt, Rubinstein and Brahms were present, and sat near each other at supper. Seeing this, some one called out, "The triumvirate.
Página 143 - Brahms, a close friend of his, was indignant at the view, originating in Hamburg that the composition must be a suite, because the first movement was written not in the customary symphony form, but with variations. Many of Beethoven's symphonies, Brahms stated, contained movements in which he had used variations. The question really depended, in his opinion, on whether the composition had the characteristics of a symphony and was constructed as such. He expressed the same view...
Página 222 - I was standing behind the curtain wringing my hands in expectation of hisses and cat calls, but the effect was quite different. The audience jumped to their feet, applauded and shouted encore like mad.
Página 135 - Desoff, at which one of his Serenades was played, the orchestra grew visibly restless, indicating disapproval of this composition. Brahms stepped to the director's stand and said: "Gentlemen, I am aware that I am not Beethoven—but I am Johannes Brahms.
Página 142 - Unless there was a question of our work and in spite of many attacks and many differences, he was at bottom really fond of me. He even had for me a deep, almost secret tenderness and expressed it except in the presence of North German friends; then he was more than reserved.
Página 116 - Tausig, later so balanced and superb a person, was at that time, in his youth, still given to wild pounding of the keys and played almost everything with the pedal down.
Página 191 - European, oriental music as a whole sounds alike, with only the well-known difference in scales and minor cadences peculiar to it. I had reached the conclusion that the musical style...