Richard Goldner
Richard Goldner ( born June 23, 1908 in Craiova, † September 27, 1991 in Sydney) was a Romanian-born, Austrian first, finally Australian violist, music educator, inventor and founder of Musica Viva Australia.
Born in Romania, Richard Goldner moved during his first year of life with his parents to Vienna. He has already received from five years of music lessons, studied after high school at first but architecture. But soon he took lessons at the way the New Vienna Conservatory at Emanuel Scharfenberg ( violin ) and Simon Pullman ( viola and chamber music) and gave the study architecture. At Simon Pullman, profoundly influenced his musical development crucial, he developed a close friendship.
In the 1930s, Goldner played in various ensembles, as among others the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Concert Orchestra, in Pullman Orchestra and most recently in Hermann Scherchen's Musica Viva Orchestra.
After the "Anschluss " of Austria in March 1938, he was forced as a Jew to emigrate and found in Australia a host country. In Sydney, it did not succeed Goldner first to earn a living as a musician. He was successful but - together with his brother - in the manufacture of leather accessories and fashion jewelry. The invention and production of a special zipper for army purposes entered the war Australia finally secured his other musical endeavors.
When Richard Goldner namely learned of the death of his former teacher and friend Simon Pullman in the concentration camp Treblinka, he founded in 1945 in honor of this chamber music ensemble. In its name, Richard Goldner 's Sydney Musica Viva, found himself also a reference to Hermann Scherchen Vienna orchestra. With a smaller ensemble, the Sydney Musica Viva String Quartet, Goldner took from 1947 tours of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand and founded a separate company for its management.
In 1950 he retired from the String Quartet back whose resolution was finally 1951. Yet a few years later, the Musica Viva Society held their revival and developed as a result to a great organizer network for chamber music concerts with prägendem influence on the music scene in Australia. Goldner self -operated initially among other things as the initiator and organizer of music festivals, but turned away from the early 1960s to the teaching.
First, he was appointed as a teacher of violin and viola at the New South Wales State Conservatorium in Sydney. In 1966 he moved then along with Charmian Gadd, a former student, whom he married in 1970, in the United States. Here both settled in Pittsburgh and took teaching at the School of Music at Duquesne. After further years of education at Western Washington University (from 1978 ) Goldner finally returned in 1981 after Sydney back.
He devoted the last years next to private music lessons on his hobby as an inventor and working on a book on teaching methods for string instruments as well as on his ( unpublished ) autobiography. Richard Goldner died in 1991 at the age of 83 years as a recognized pioneer in the chamber music concert in the public sector in Australia has decisively helped to advantage.
Awards
- Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art First Class (1970 )