Robert Goldsand

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Robert Goldsand (1926)

Robert Goldsand (March 17, 1911 – September 16, 1991) was an Austrian-American classical pianist.

Life

Goldsand was born in

Town Hall in New York City.[1]
His father Jakob died in 1929, and his mother Helene, who had accompanied Robert on several trips to the United States, died in 1937.

Upon leaving Vienna to flee the Nazis — his parents were both

Cincinnati Conservatory. In 1949, at the invitation of the Chopin Centennial Committee, he performed a complete cycle of that composer's recital repertoire in six concerts. In 1951, Goldsand joined the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music [2], where he continued to teach until 1990. [3] His concert repertoire was vast and included music ranging from the Baroque period with J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations through works of major 19th-century composers such as Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Schubert. He also performed music of virtuoso performer-composers like Godowsky and Schulz-Evler; and such 20th-century composers as Hindemith. [4]

Pedagogy

Goldsand taught many students during his long tenure at the Manhattan School including Suezenne Fordham [5], Neil Galanter, Harris Goldsmith [6], Donald Isler, Anne Koscielny [7], Thomas Schumacher [8], and Ralph Votapek [9]. According to Henry Edmundson, a student for one year not long before Goldsand's death, Goldsand was "a stickler for tradition" and demanded that the student adhere to Goldsand's way of playing a piece. [10] Harris Goldsmith recalls Goldsand as a "pianistic charmer" with "debonair technical ease," citing an instance when Goldsand demonstrated with his left hand how to obtain the desired legato in the coda of Chopin's fourth ballade. [11] Goldsand's passion for Beethoven had a major influence on his pupils, particularly in the case of Dr. Kevin Moore, a prominent professor of piano at Onondaga Community College in upstate New York. Dr. Moore has performed all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas, in local performances to the public, which have become immensely popular.[citation needed]

Recordings

Most of Goldsand's recordings appeared on the American

YouTube.

Death

He died of diabetes in a Danbury, Connecticut nursing home, in 1991.

References

  1. ISSN 0040-781X
    . Retrieved 2023-04-15.

Sources

External links

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