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Gisella Selden-Goth (6 June 1884 – 5 September 1975) was a Hungarian author, composer and musicologist who became an American citizen in 1939. She composed at least four string quartets and donated her large collection of original music manuscripts to the Library of Congress.

Biography

Selden-Goth was born in Budapest to Michael and Rosalia Schlesinger. Her music teachers included Béla Bartók, Ferruccio Busoni, and István Thomán. Her set of piano compositions, Vier Präludien, was one of 10 winners (out of 874 submissions) in the 1910 Signale für die musikalische Welt competition in Germany. She married Ernst Goth and they had a daughter, Trudy Goth, who became a dancer and journalist.

Selden-Goth lived in Berlin and Florence, Italy, before emigrating to America in 1938. She returned to Florence in 1950 and remained there until her death in 1975. She served as a music critic for newspapers in Berlin, Prague, Switzerland, and Budapest, most notably for Prager Tagblatt, a German newspaper in Prague. She also wrote books about Busoni and Arturo Toscanini and edited a collection of Felix Mendelssohn's letters. She maintained a lengthy correspondence with the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, often discussing their mutual interest in collecting original music scores. After Zweig's suicide, Selden-Goth commented that, "A chamber group in a house or the opportunity to hear a good orchestra might have relieved the tension of that mind tortured by personal forebodings and by the vision of mankind in agony." She also corresponded with composer Ernest Bloch and musicologist Hans Moldenhauer.

Selden-Goth's music is published today by Universal Edition. Her prose works and musical compositions include:

Selected literary publications

Articles

  • "A New Collection of Music Manuscripts in the United States", The Musical Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, April 1940
  • "Neue Wege der musikalischen Erziehung" , Die Musik, vol. 16, 1924

Bibliography

  • Arturo Toscanini (edited by Selden-Goth)
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Letters (edited by Selden-Goth)
  • Ferruccio Busoni: Der Versuch eines Porträts

Selected music works

Chamber music

  • Quintet, Op. 35 (for strings)
  • String Quartets No. 1, 2, 3, and 4
  • String Trio
  • Suite for Violin and Piano

Piano

  • Prelude and Fugue for Two Pianos (1956)
  • Vier Präludien, Signale competition winner (1910)

Vocal music

References

  1. "Works by Gisella Selden-Goth". Universal Edition. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  2. Gibbin, Paola; Tozzi, Maria Dina (2023). "Gisella Selden-Goth". In Patrizia Guarnieri (ed.). Intellettuali in fuga dall'Italia fascista. Migranti, esuli e rifugiati per motivi politici o razziali [Gisella Selden-Goth, in Patrizia Guarnieri, Intellectuals Fleeing Fascist Italy. Migrants, exiles and refugees for political or racial reasons] (PDF) (in Italian) (2nd ed.). Firenze: Firenze University Press. doi:10.36253/978-88-5518-648-3. ISBN 978-88-5518-648-3.
  3. "Selden-Goth, Gisela, New York, U.S.". State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794–1943. Retrieved 18 October 2022 – via ancestry.com.
  4. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Vol. 2. Books & Music (USA). p. 632. ISBN 978-0-9617485-2-4. Retrieved 27 July 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  5. Gisella Selden-Goth Collection, Library of Congress, retrieved 27 July 2024
  6. Robin Rausch. "'Tenderly Guarded Treasure': The Gisella Selden-Goth Collection at the Library of Congress". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Gisella Selden-Goth". casastefanzweig.org.br. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  8. ^ Ten prize winning compositions (69 pages of music), 1910, hdl:1802/2419
  9. "Trudy Goth Dies; Writer On Dance". The New York Times. 14 May 1974. p. 40. Retrieved 27 July 2024. facsimile
  10. ^ Dyment, Christopher (2012). Toscanini in Britain. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-789-3.
  11. "Selden-Goth, Gisella, 1884–1975". Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC). Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  12. Selden-Goth, Gisella (1940). "A New Collection of Music Manuscripts in the United States". The Musical Quarterly. 26 (2): 175–185. doi:10.1093/mq/XXVI.2.175. ISSN 0027-4631. JSTOR 738845.
  13. Selden-Goth, Gisella (1924). "Neue Wege der musikalischen Erziehung" [New ways of musical education]. Die Musik. Vol. 16. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  14. "Felix Mendelssohn: Letters, edited by G. Selden-Goth". Commentary. 1 November 1945. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  15. Loesser, Arthur (Summer 1964). "Gisella Selden-Goth: Ferruccio Busoni". Notes. Second Series. 21 (3): 362–364. doi:10.2307/894499. ISSN 0027-4380. JSTOR 894499.
  16. ^ Altmann, Wilhelm (1920). "Wichtige neue Musikalien, Bücher und Aufsätze über Musik" [Important new music publications, books and essays on music]. Melos [de] (in German). B. Schott's Söhne.

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