Bruno Walter conducted the world premiere of Karl Goldmark's sixth and final opera, Ein Wintermärchen, based on Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale, on January 2, 1908.
Composer Biography
Karl Goldmark's violin studies with Joseph Böhm placed him in a direct teacher-student lineage tracing back to the famous violinist Arcangelo Corelli.
Composer Biography
Bruno Walter, born in Berlin in 1879, was initially considered a child prodigy, pampered as 'the little Mozart' at the Stern Conservatory.
Critical Reception
Karl Goldmark's opera Die Königin von Saba ('The Queen of Sheba') achieved considerable international success, becoming the first German opera, apart from Wagner, to be performed in Italy.
Composer Biography
Karl Goldmark was a friend of Brahms and Johann Strauss, and the Finnish composer Sibelius was briefly one of his students.
Composer Biography
Karl Goldmark, born in Hungary in 1830, was one of twenty (or possibly twenty-three) children of a local cantor and lawyer, though only eleven survived.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bruno Walter, despite composing in his youth, emphatically stated in his autobiography, Theme and Variations, 'I am not a composer,' and largely abandoned composition in his twenties.
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