Isador Goodman
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Isador Goodman AM was a South Africa
n-Australia
n Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. He became a household name in Australia in the 1930s-1970s, taught at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music
for 50 years, introduced many Australians to classical music, and contributed hugely to music making in his adopted country.
, South Africa
in 1909 to musical parents of Jewish descent. He started studying music early, as well as composing, and one of his compositions was performed when he was only six. At age seven Goodman played the Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. His father died when he was 12, and he moved to London with his mother.
Goodman studied piano at the Royal College of Music
with Lloyd Powell (1888–1975), who had been a student of Busoni
and Clara Schumann
, and conducting with Constant Lambert
. In 1924, at age 15, Goodman played the Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat
under Malcolm Sargent
. This concerto was to become his "calling card".
His mother remarried, choosing an uncle of her first husband; when they returned to South Africa, they left Goodman in London because of its greater musical opportunities.
in Sydney
, Australia
. This offer was made by the director, W. Arundel Orchard
, over much opposition because local musicians opposed bringing in a man from abroad for a coveted position. Goodman was to teach at "the Con", on and off, for 50 years. While "Professor of Piano by day, he would play all night at jazz clubs in the company of 'hardened drinkers and SP bookies'."
After attending two of Goodman's recitals in 1931, when the young man was 22, the English critic Neville Cardus
, who until then had never heard of the musician, described him as
Goodman became well known in society circles, and received the patronage
and personal friendship of the Governor of New South Wales
Sir Philip Game
and Lady Game. Goodman was at Government House for dinner with the Games one night in May 1932. After the governor was repeatedly interrupted for consultation, Goodman asked if he ought to leave. Game replied, "No, that's not necessary, you see, I am about to dismiss the Premier
".
Later in 1932 Goodman toured Australia and New Zealand
for the Tait organisation as associate artist for the visiting Scottish tenor
Joseph Hislop
. They did not get on, as Hislop felt Goodman was upstaging him. They came to blows. On 1 July 1932 Goodman was soloist in a concert by the National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. This was the forerunner of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, which was broadcast live from the Conservatorium to mark the official start of the Australian Broadcasting Commission
.
He became musical directors at cinemas in Sydney and Melbourne
, and would play classical pieces in between films. Goodman accompanied the English actor Noël Coward
in Melbourne in 1940. In 1942 during World War II
, he joined the Australian Army
, rising to the rank of lieutenant. He gave 200 performances to over 150,000 servicemen. In September 1944 he was discharged as medically unfit. He dedicated his New Guinea Fantasy for piano and orchestra to the Australian servicemen.
After the war, Goodman returned to Britain. His farewell performance at the Sydney Town Hall included the first performance in Australia of Prokofiev
's Piano Sonata No. 7
. Despite playing at a Royal Command Performance
for King George VI
and Queen Elizabeth
at St. James’s Palace in October 1948, Goodman could not find steady work in England in the postwar years.
He returned to Australia, this time permanently. In 1955 he wrote a lush, impressionist score for the Australian director Charles Chauvel’s landmark 1955 film Jedda
, about Aborigines. Elsa Chauvel, the director's wife, scrapped the most innovative passages and replaced them with old-fashioned commercial ‘mood’ music. Goodman's music was recently called too European to be appropriate for the film about Aborigines but that was typical of the time.
In 1956 Isador Goodman played on the opening night of television station TCN9
in Sydney, and became the channel’s musical director for two years. In 1967 Goodman returned to teaching at the NSW Conservatorium.
In 1969 he was seriously injured in a car crash, which sidelined him for four years. Goodman made a triumphant return to the concert platform with an all-Chopin
recital in Sydney in 1973. Later that year he played with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
in the first series of concerts at the new Sydney Opera House
. In February 1974 he appeared in concerts conducted by Arthur Fiedler
. In 1975, he played Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
at the "Concert for Darwin
", staged to raise funds for the city devastated by Cyclone Tracy
.
He appeared in a recital at the new Melbourne Concert Hall (now Hamer Hall
) on 31 July 1982. His last recital was at the Sydney Town Hall
on 26 September 1982.
Goodman died of cancer on 2 December 1982. Later the same day, his lifelong friend Lindley Evans
also died.
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n-Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. He became a household name in Australia in the 1930s-1970s, taught at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia...
for 50 years, introduced many Australians to classical music, and contributed hugely to music making in his adopted country.
Biography
Moses Isidore Goodman was born in Cape TownCape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
in 1909 to musical parents of Jewish descent. He started studying music early, as well as composing, and one of his compositions was performed when he was only six. At age seven Goodman played the Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
Piano Concerto No. 20 (Mozart)
The Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. The first performance took place at the Mehlgrube Casino in Vienna on February 11, 1785, with the composer as the soloist.-Background:...
with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. His father died when he was 12, and he moved to London with his mother.
Goodman studied piano at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
with Lloyd Powell (1888–1975), who had been a student of Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...
and Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
, and conducting with Constant Lambert
Constant Lambert
Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer and conductor.-Early life:Lambert, the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert, was educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music...
. In 1924, at age 15, Goodman played the Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat
Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)
Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version dates 1849. The concerto consists of four movements, which are performed without breaks in between, and lasts approximately 20 minutes...
under Malcolm Sargent
Malcolm Sargent
Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works...
. This concerto was to become his "calling card".
His mother remarried, choosing an uncle of her first husband; when they returned to South Africa, they left Goodman in London because of its greater musical opportunities.
Career
In 1929 at age 20, Goodman accepted an offer to teach at the New South Wales Conservatorium of MusicSydney Conservatorium of Music
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia...
in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. This offer was made by the director, W. Arundel Orchard
W. Arundel Orchard
William Arundel Orchard OBE FRCM was a British-born Australian organist, pianist, composer, conductor and music educator....
, over much opposition because local musicians opposed bringing in a man from abroad for a coveted position. Goodman was to teach at "the Con", on and off, for 50 years. While "Professor of Piano by day, he would play all night at jazz clubs in the company of 'hardened drinkers and SP bookies'."
After attending two of Goodman's recitals in 1931, when the young man was 22, the English critic Neville Cardus
Neville Cardus
Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus CBE was an English writer and critic, best known for his writing on music and cricket. For many years, he wrote for The Manchester Guardian. He was untrained in music, and his style of criticism was subjective, romantic and personal, in contrast with his critical...
, who until then had never heard of the musician, described him as
"the best pianist in Australia. I would cheerfully stake my reputation on Mr Goodman's playing in any capital city of Europe in pieces definitely pianistic or romantic in style. ... he is a natural pianist, he plays the piano as most of the rest of us breathe ... I did not believe it possible that I could ever again listen to the D flat Waltz of Chopin with virgin and delighted ears. But Mr Goodman rippled the hackneyed piece as though for the first time - HorowitzVladimir HorowitzVladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...
himself could not have recreated it anew with more enchanting touch and tone and rhythm".
Goodman became well known in society circles, and received the patronage
Patronage
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors...
and personal friendship of the Governor of New South Wales
Governors of New South Wales
The Governor of New South Wales is the state viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared with 15 other sovereign nations in a form of personal union, as well as with the eleven other jurisdictions of Australia, and resides predominantly in her...
Sir Philip Game
Philip Game
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game GCB, GCVO, GBE, KCMG, DSO was a British Royal Air Force commander, who later served as Governor of New South Wales and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis...
and Lady Game. Goodman was at Government House for dinner with the Games one night in May 1932. After the governor was repeatedly interrupted for consultation, Goodman asked if he ought to leave. Game replied, "No, that's not necessary, you see, I am about to dismiss the Premier
Jack Lang (Australian politician)
John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...
".
Later in 1932 Goodman toured Australia and New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
for the Tait organisation as associate artist for the visiting Scottish tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Joseph Hislop
Joseph Hislop
Joseph Hislop was a lyric tenor who appeared in opera and oratorio and gave concerts around the world....
. They did not get on, as Hislop felt Goodman was upstaging him. They came to blows. On 1 July 1932 Goodman was soloist in a concert by the National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. This was the forerunner of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, which was broadcast live from the Conservatorium to mark the official start of the Australian Broadcasting Commission
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
.
He became musical directors at cinemas in Sydney and Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, and would play classical pieces in between films. Goodman accompanied the English actor Noël Coward
Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
in Melbourne in 1940. In 1942 during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, he joined the Australian Army
Australian Army
The Australian Army is Australia's military land force. It is part of the Australian Defence Force along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. While the Chief of Defence commands the Australian Defence Force , the Army is commanded by the Chief of Army...
, rising to the rank of lieutenant. He gave 200 performances to over 150,000 servicemen. In September 1944 he was discharged as medically unfit. He dedicated his New Guinea Fantasy for piano and orchestra to the Australian servicemen.
After the war, Goodman returned to Britain. His farewell performance at the Sydney Town Hall included the first performance in Australia of Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
's Piano Sonata No. 7
Piano Sonata No. 7 (Prokofiev)
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83 , the second of his three so-called War Sonatas, was composed between 1939-1942 and premiered January 18, 1943 in Moscow by Sviatoslav Richter....
. Despite playing at a Royal Command Performance
Royal Variety Performance
The Royal Variety Performance is a gala evening held annually in the United Kingdom, which is attended by senior members of the British Royal Family, usually the reigning monarch. In more recent years Queen Elizabeth II and The Prince of Wales have alternately attended the performance...
for King George VI
George VI of the United Kingdom
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...
and Queen Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...
at St. James’s Palace in October 1948, Goodman could not find steady work in England in the postwar years.
He returned to Australia, this time permanently. In 1955 he wrote a lush, impressionist score for the Australian director Charles Chauvel’s landmark 1955 film Jedda
Jedda
Jedda was the last movie made by the Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel. The film is most notable for being the first to star two Aboriginal actors in the leading roles, and also to be the first Australian film shot in colour...
, about Aborigines. Elsa Chauvel, the director's wife, scrapped the most innovative passages and replaced them with old-fashioned commercial ‘mood’ music. Goodman's music was recently called too European to be appropriate for the film about Aborigines but that was typical of the time.
In 1956 Isador Goodman played on the opening night of television station TCN9
TCN
TCN stands for:* Take Care Now, a private company providing out-of-hours medical cover in England* TanenbaumCHAT North Campus, a private Hebrew high school in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada* TCN-9, a Sydney television station...
in Sydney, and became the channel’s musical director for two years. In 1967 Goodman returned to teaching at the NSW Conservatorium.
In 1969 he was seriously injured in a car crash, which sidelined him for four years. Goodman made a triumphant return to the concert platform with an all-Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
recital in Sydney in 1973. Later that year he played with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia. It has 100 permanent musicians. Melbourne has the longest continuous history of orchestral music of any Australian city and the MSO is the oldest professional orchestra in Australia...
in the first series of concerts at the new Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...
. In February 1974 he appeared in concerts conducted by Arthur Fiedler
Arthur Fiedler
Arthur Fiedler was a long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a symphony orchestra that specializes in popular and light classical music. With a combination of musicianship and showmanship, he made the Boston Pops one of the best-known orchestras in the country...
. In 1975, he played Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2, is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt, and is by far the most famous of the set. Few other piano solos have achieved such widespread popularity, offering the pianist the opportunity to reveal exceptional skill as a virtuoso,...
at the "Concert for Darwin
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
", staged to raise funds for the city devastated by Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974...
.
He appeared in a recital at the new Melbourne Concert Hall (now Hamer Hall
The Arts Centre (Melbourne)
The Victorian Arts Centre is a performing arts centre consisting of a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the inner Melbourne suburb of Southbank in Victoria, Australia....
) on 31 July 1982. His last recital was at the Sydney Town Hall
Sydney Town Hall
The Sydney Town Hall is a landmark sandstone building located in the heart of Sydney. It stands opposite the Queen Victoria Building and alongside St Andrew's Cathedral...
on 26 September 1982.
Goodman died of cancer on 2 December 1982. Later the same day, his lifelong friend Lindley Evans
Lindley Evans
Lindley Evans CMG was a South African-born Australian composer, pianist and teacher. He is best known for his collaboration with Frank Hutchens in a famous piano duet which lasted 41 years, and as the ABC's "Mr Melody Man" for 30 years.Harry Lindley Evans was born in Cape Town in 1895, to English...
also died.
Legacy and honours
- 1981, Goodman was made a Member of the Order of AustraliaOrder of AustraliaThe Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
on Australia DayAustralia DayAustralia Day is the official national day of Australia...
, in recognition for his service to music. - 1983, his fourth wife Virginia Goodman published a biography of him, Isador Goodman: A Life in Music.
Recordings
- Richard AddinsellRichard AddinsellRichard Stewart Addinsell was a British composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight .-Life:...
’s Warsaw ConcertoWarsaw ConcertoThe Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight . It was written by British composer Richard Addinsell...
, George GershwinGeorge GershwinGeorge Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
’s Rhapsody in BlueRhapsody in BlueRhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects....
, LitolffHenry Charles LitolffHenry Charles Litolff was a piano virtuoso, composer of Romantic music and music publisher.Litolff was born in London, the son of a Scottish mother and an Alsatian father...
’s "Scherzo" from Concerto Symphonique No. 4, and Liszt’s Hungarian FantasyHungarian Fantasy (Liszt)The Hungarian Fantasy for piano and orchestra is an arrangement of the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 written by Franz Liszt in 1852...
, Phillips Concert Classic, reissue, ArkivMusic - Isador Goodman: Dangerous Moonlight, Piano Classics for the Silver Screen, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Patrick ThomasPatrick Thomas (conductor)Patrick Thomas MBE is an Australian conductor.For a period of almost 35 years he conducted hundreds of performances across Australia in just about every centre where the various state symphony orchestras ventured, and introduced music to virtually a whole generation of young Australians through...
, Philips Eloquence CD, 2005 - The Yesterday Concerto, John LanchberyJohn LanchberyJohn Arthur Lanchbery OBE was an English, later Australian, composer and conductor, famous for his ballet arrangements.-Life:...
’s arrangement of John LennonJohn LennonJohn Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
and Paul McCartneyPaul McCartneySir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
’s music, for piano and orchestra – Isador Goodman, with Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Lanchbery, ABC - Johann Strauss IIJohann Strauss IIJohann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...
, Paraphrases and Piano Transcriptions: An Anthology of Historic Performances · Volume 1 (1930-1954), includes Isador Goodman, 1932 recording of Schultz-Evler's Concert Arabesques on Strauss's Waltz 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube' , Naxos - Isador Goodman, Transcriptions Without Apologies, EMI, 1974 includes AlbénizIsaac AlbénizIsaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
arr. GodowskyLeopold GodowskyLeopold Godowsky was a famed Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher. One of the most highly regarded performers of his time, he became known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion in piano playing, principles later propagated by Godowsky's...
(Tango), WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
arr. Louis BrassinLouis BrassinLouis Brassin was a Belgian pianist, composer and music educator. He is best known now for his piano transcription of the Magic Fire Music from Wagner's Die Walküre.-Career:...
(Magic Fire Music from Die WalküreDie WalküreDie Walküre , WWV 86B, is the second of the four operas that form the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner...
), SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
arr. Liszt (Hark! Hark! The Lark), ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
arr. TausigCarl TausigCarl Tausig was a Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer.-Life:Tausig was born in Warsaw to Jewish parents and received his first piano lessons from his father, pianist and composer Aloys Tausig, a student of Sigismond Thalberg. His father introduced him to Franz Liszt in Weimar at the...
(Pastorale and Capriccio), DelibesLéo DelibesClément Philibert Léo Delibes was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage...
arr. DohnányiErno DohnányiErnő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....
(Naila Waltzes), SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
arr. Liszt (Spring Night), Maurice RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
(Alborada del graciosoMiroirsMiroirs, or "Reflections" is a suite for solo piano written by French impressionist composer Maurice Ravel between 1904 and 1905. First performed by Ricardo Viñes in 1906, Miroirs contains five movements, each dedicated to a fellow member of the French impressionist group, Les...
), BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
arr. BusoniFerruccio BusoniFerruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...
(Rejoice, Beloved Christians), Manuel de FallaManuel de FallaManuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
(Ritual Fire DanceEl amor brujoEl amor brujo is a piece of music originally composed by Manuel de Falla for a chamber group, then re-scored as a symphonic suite, and eventually as a ballet...
), and VerdiGiuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
arr. Liszt (RigolettoRigolettoRigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851...
Concert Paraphrase)
Sources
- Live Performance Australia Hall of Fame
- Virginia Goodman, Isador Goodman: A Life in Music, Collins, 1983