Edwin Franko Goldman

Edwin Franko Goldman ( born January 1, 1878 in Louisville, † February 21, 1956 in New York) was an American composer, conductor and cornetist.

Life

He comes from a very musical family. When he was 9 years old, his father died and the family moved to New York. Along with one of his brothers, he was housed in a Jewish orphanage. His mother was a gifted pianist who performed together with his brother and a great impression was made on the young John Philip Sousa. In the child's age of 9, he studied cornet with George Weigand at Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York City. He then studied at the grand cornet Jules Lévy.

In 1892 he declined a scholarship to study in Europe, and moved in front of it, at the National Conservatory of Music in New York trumpet and cornet at Carl Sohst and to study harmony with Maurice Arnold. In the orchestra of the Conservatory, he played under the direction of Antonín Dvořák, at that time director of the Conservatory, and also under the direction of Victor Herbert, who was also a lecturer. In Dvořák he also studied composition.

During his studies he played for a while in the orchestra of his uncle Nahan Franko. From this he has the name Franko adopted to combine it later with his name Goldman. He did not succeed in becoming a member of the band of John Philip Sousa. He also rejected an offer from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1901 he became principal cornet player in the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera Company and remained there until 1909. Located in the Opera Orchestra of the Metropolitan uncle Nahan Franko was concertmaster. One of the most notable performances with the Metropolitan Orchestra was the legendary Caruso recital on November 23, 1903 and both Gustav Mahler and Arturo Toscanini as conductor to experience.

After 1909, the Metropolitan Orchestra - against the will of Arturo Toscanini - had left, he was first employed by a renowned music publisher, for which he tested trumpets and wrote several articles for magazines. During this time he composed his first march The Spirit of Peace, which was of course sold in to the publisher. Later he wrote a still famous today Cornet school which also published this publisher. But Goldman had previously only a dream someday to conduct a concert band according to his ideas.

On 8 July 1907 he conducted for the first time a band in Corlear 's Hook Park. On 17 April 1906 he was - during a concert tour of the Metropolitan Orchestra - spared miraculously with his uncle from the consequences of the earthquake in San Francisco.

The Goldman Band

Back in 1909 was Goldman that the summer concerts of the band made ​​up of members of the Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Orchestra, which she gave in the parks of New York, were not very reputable. The band rehearsed hard and this task the musicians viewed ultimately as a convenient source of additional income. Therefore, he in 1911 founded the New York Military Band, in which he combined the best wind players of the orchestra in New York. Two years later, the band was firmly committed for guest concerts at Columbia University. Due to the financial support of the Guggenheim family, he could put together a professional orchestra. Its unique, popular and free open-air concerts in Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn were at that time visited by more visitors and listeners ( 12,000 listeners in Central Park) than any other series of concerts within and outside the United States.

Later, when the band had established and already made a good name, it was renamed in 1920 in Goldman Band. The Goldman Band was one of the most famous bands and the name Goldman stood as a synonym for excellent music, and outside the United States. Already quite quickly followed by concerts at Carnegie Hall and the New York Hippodrome. 1923 one occurred in the Bandshell from The Mall in Central Park. When this Bandshell massively rebuilt in 1924 due to generous donations, that was reason enough for it to compose the march on the Mall in gratitude. The donations from the Guggenheim family were renewed again and again and from this arose the Guggenheim Foundation.

There was talk of a triumvirate of Concert Music in the United States, referring to the conductor Patrick Gilmore (1829-1892), John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) and Edwin Franko Goldman.

On 5 July 1929, he was co-founder and first president of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA). The Bureau also three former members of the band of John Philip Sousa, namely Frank Somon, Arthur Pryor and Herbert Clarke were. In 1934 he was made an honorary Doctor of Phillips University in Enid ( Oklahoma); same honors were to him in 1936 by the Boston University and in 1953 by the DePauw University bestowed.

On August 15, 1955, Goldman gave his last concert with the band named after him; it was the 2.146te with this ensemble.

His oeuvre includes 106 marches alone and 37 solo concerts for cornet.

Works

Works for wind

• Composer ( brass bands )
• Conductor
• Cornetist
• Honorary doctor of a university in the United States
• Honorary doctorate from Boston University
• American composer
• Born in 1878
• Died in 1956
• Man