Goldmark – rustic wedding symphony (ländliche hochzeit), op. 26 (2/5)

сентября 29, 2010 · By admin

Ländliche Hochzeit, Op. 26 (1875) I. Hochzeitsmarsch (Wedding March): Variations (conclusion) This is an extended symphonic poem by Hungarian composer Karl Goldmark (1830-1915). His music, though in the tradition of Mendelssohn, incorporated various influence over his lengthy career, including the brass-heavy progressive idiom of Liszt and Wagner. Goldmark was raised in a large and rather poor Jewish family with twenty children. His father worked as a hazzan (a Jewish cantor) in a synagogue in the Hungarian town of Keszthely. Trained as a violinist, Goldmark began to study composing in Vienna, but his conservatory closed down after the 1848 Revolutions. Lacking sufficient funds to continue his studies, Goldmark was mostly self-taught as a composer and he supported himself via music journalism and playing the violin in various ensembles in Ödenburg and Vienna. Goldmark’s debut concert (as a composer) in 1858 was a flop, so he moved to Budapest, where he spent some time as a violin instructor and continued to refine his compositional technique by studying traditional textbooks. He returned to Vienna two years later, and his Op. 8 string quartet and Sakuntala Overture were received much more warmly. As a critic, Goldmark was an ardent supporter of Richard Wagner and he ever played a role in founding the Vienna Wagner Society. His grand opera Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba) was a great popular success, and it led to numerous honours, awards and honorary doctorates …

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