Goldmark: String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 8 & String Quintet in A Minor, Op. 9

Featuring

Fritz Kircher
Martin Kocsis
Gerswind Olthoff
Nikolai New
Rudolf Leopold
Haydn Quartett

Karl Goldmark

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Despite his lack of formal training, Goldmark was a stern self-critic, destroying all works composed before his twenty-eighth year.

Composition History

Goldmark achieved his first recognition as a composer with his String Quartet Op. 8, which followed years of intensive self-study of counterpoint and works by Bach and Beethoven.

Performer Biography

The Haydn Quartet has been 'Quartet in Residence' for over 20 years at Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt, where Joseph Haydn worked.

Performer Biography

In 2009, the Haydn Quartet performed all 69 string quartets by Joseph Haydn in a cycle of 18 concerts in Vienna's Imperial Church of St. Michael.

Composer Biography

Goldmark had to abandon his violin studies due to his father's financial difficulties and largely lacked comprehensive musical education in his youth.

Composition History

The premiere of Goldmark's String Quartet Op. 8 was initially rejected by Josef Hellmesberger sen., a violinist and conductor, who later performed it after Goldmark hired him and his colleagues for a successful concert.