Szymon Goldberg
Szymon Goldberg ( born June 1, 1909 in Wloclawek, † July 19, 1993 in Toyama, Japan ) was an American violinist and conductor of Polish-Jewish origin.
Life
Its approximately 140 km north- west of Warsaw situated on the Vistula birthplace belonged to the Russian Empire (now Poland). He learned to play the violin in his first teacher Mieczyslaw Michalowicz. At age nine, in 1918, he went to Berlin, where he received at Carl Flesch due to his talent free violin lessons. As a 12 -year-old he made his debut in 1921 in Warsaw and entered 1924 with great success in Berlin.
From 1925 to 1929 he was concertmaster of the Dresden Philharmonic. With the members of the Dresden Philharmonic, he formed the Simon Goldberg Quartet ( Szymon Goldberg, Arthur von Freymann, Herbert Ronnefeld and glue) which later became the string quartet of the Dresden Philharmonic ( Szymon Goldberg, Joseph Lasek, Herbert Ronnefeld and Enrico Mainardi ) emerged. Goldberg also appeared later ( 1928.1930 ) with pianist Paul Aron in the concert series " New Music " in Dresden.
He then moved by personal invitation of Wilhelm Furtwängler with the Berliner Philharmoniker. From 1930 - 1933 he formed a string trio with Paul Hindemith and Emanuel Fire Man, that works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Max Reger and Franz Schubert 1931-1932 occurred on the radio. At one of his last appearances in Germany belonged to the interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Wilhelm Furtwängler. As a Jew, he was banned from performing in 1934 and went to England. From here he went to Tremezzo on Lake Como, where Artur Schnabel in 1933 had set up a music school. This was led by Peter Diamand, who later became director of the Holland Festival. Schnabel taught the pianist, his wife Therese, the singer and the violinist Goldberg. These summer classes were attended by about fifty master students and beak remained there until 1939.
Lili Kraus was living at the time also in Tremezzo and Goldberg went with her accompanist at the piano on tour. For the British record label Parlophone, they took in 1935 and 1937, the sonatas of Beethoven and Mozart. After their European tour Goldberg debuted in 1938 in New York.
On an Asian tour - accompanied by Lili Kraus - where he played among others with Max Vredenburg, he was arrested in Indonesia under a pretext by the Japanese and was interned from 1942 to 1945 on Java.
After his return to the U.S., he was an American citizen in 1953. From 1951 to 1965 he taught at the Aspen Music School and worked next as a conductor. The "Nederlands Chamber Orchestra " was established in 1955 and was in the same year his first concert at the Holland Festival. For 22 years the legendary violinist, conductor and teacher Szymon Goldberg was musical director of the ensemble. Goldberg David Zinman appointed to the second conductor. Together they led the orchestra in the international piano nobile of chamber music ensembles. From 1977 to 1980 Goldberg was " one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century ", head of the Manchester Camerata founded in 1972.
He has also performed ( Tanglewood Festival ) as soloist and conductor with the London Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the Cleveland, Chicago Symphony and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He led in the U.S. masterclasses for violin and chamber music: 1978-1982 at Yale University, in 1978 at the Juilliard School of Music in 1981 at the Curtis Institute of Music, and from 1981 at the Manhattan School of Music.
1988 married Szymon Goldberg, the much younger pianist Miyoko Yamane and they lived in Philidelphia. Your summer and Christmas holidays they spent in Japan. In 1990, Goldman conductor of the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo and a visiting professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1992 they moved the Goldbergs to Japan and lived at the foot of the Tateyama Mountains, Toyama. Here Szymon Goldberg died on 19 July 1993.
Work
Goldberg, who made his debut with Niccolò Paganini's Violin Concerto was 15 years old at the Berlin Philharmonic, was considered a musical prodigy and in childhood as a " first-class soloist and chamber virtuoso ". In England he played with pianist Lili Kraus a Mozart and Beethoven sonatas, which are still regarded as significant. Goldberg's game drew " his renunciation of excessive vibrato, his rhythmic presence, clarity and freshness in the game that the musicians to old age kept up " from.
Among the recordings left by Szymon Goldberg as a violinist, there are some notable historical recordings:
- First movement of Mozart's A major Concerto K. 219 with the Berlin Philharmonic under Paul Kletzki ( Telefunken, around 1932 );
- Paul Hindemith's Trio No.1 for Violin, Viola and Cello - Recording with Paul Hindemith and Emanuel fire man of 1934;
- All violin sonatas by Mozart recordings, first with the pianist Lili Kraus and in later years with the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu.
The International Music Academy Meissen eV was founded in 1999 as a sophisticated musical educational institution to music to provide young people with opportunities for intensive study. She wrote in 2009 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the violinist Szymon Goldberg for the first time an international violin competition for the " Szymon Goldberg Award Meissen " from.
Goldberg's violin
Goldberg played a as " Baron Vitta " Guarneri del Gesù known of 1734th After his death, the violin by his wife, Miyoko Yamane Goldberg, was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution for safekeeping. Through the mediation of some friends, the statutory conditions have been created to re-transfer the " Goldberg Baron Vitta " Guarneri del Gesù violin of the Library of Congress. This happened on 24 April 2006. Thereby Especially interesting was the assumption that the Goldberg violin should be a "twin " of the ex - " Kreisler " violin because they are made from the same piece of wood and this is already in the library of Congress was. However, it turned out that the " ' Kreisler ' Del Gesu 1733 ", not a " twin" of the Goldberg violin was, but the " Stretton ".