DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

198 GOLDSCHMIDT GOLINELLI
impresario, Pollini, undertook tlie management,
and a plienomenal artistic success was predicted.
Unfortunatelj"" Polliui died. Intrigues from
outside disineml)ered the committee, and the
"whole sclieme was sliel\'ed indefinitely. Disgusted
at this reliulf, Goldschmidt has lived a
very retired life for tlie last eight years, continuing
to work as actively as before, but sadly
disillusioned as to the prospect of receiving his
due. His ' Die fromme Helene ' was pirodueed
at Hamburg in 1897. Besides the works
described, he has j)ub]ished a symphonic poem
and about a humlred songs, many of which
attain to a very high level of artistic excellence.
Goldschmidt's style has a certain amount of the
"Wagnerian element, but not enough to affect
his strong vein of originality. It is remarkable
to thiuk that, saturated as we have been
for a generation with the products of Wagnerian
epigoni, the work of this composer will still
strike one as something fresh and new. His
musical diction is powerful, and if perhaps
harsh at moments, is never commonplace ;
while his unconventionality does not tempt him
to cross the line where eccentricity begins. E. E.
GOLDSCHMIDT, Otto, pianist, composer,
and conductor, born Aug. 21, 1829, at Hamburg,
where his father and grandfather resided as
merchants ; studied the jiiano and harmony
under .Jacob Schmitt and F. W. Grund. At the
age of fourteen he entered the Leipzig Conservatorium,
where, until 1846, he studied the piano
and composition as a pupil in ^lendelssohn's
class. In 1848 he was sent to Paris, with the
view of contiiuiing his studies under Ghoiiin,
whose acquaintance he made, and was present
at the last concert given by him in the Salle
Pleyel. He came to England in 1848, and in
the following year played at the Musical Union,
and at a concert of Mile. Jenny Lind's at Her
Majesty's Theatre. In 1851 he went to America,
succeeding Benedict as conductor of a series of
concerts given by .Jenny Lind. He married
that lady at Boston, U.S.A., on Feb. 5, 1852.
From 1852 to November 1855 he and his wife
resided at Dresden, and from 1858 lived in or
near London. He conducted the festivals licld
at Diisseldorf and Hamburg in 1863 and 1866
respectively, and in 1863 was appointed Vice-
Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, then
presided over by Sir W. Sterndale Bennett, with
whom he edited 'The Chorale Book for England,'
a collectiorr of chorales set to translations of
German hymns by Miss C. AVinkworth (Longmans,
18§3). He compiosed the oratorio 'Ruth'
(op. 20) for the Hereford Festival of 1867, and
it was subsequently p)erformed in London,
Diisseldorf, and Hamburg. ' Music ' (op. 27),
a choral song for soprano solo and female
chonis, to words by Sir Lewis Morris, was
given at the Leeds Festival of 1898. He introduced
into Germany Handel's ' Ode for S.
Cecilia's Day,' and in England conducted
' L' Allegro ed II Penseroso,' for which lie wrote
additional accompaniments. These works had
not been heard in Germany or England in a
complete foriu since Handel's time. In 1875
the Bach Choir, an association of amateurs,
was formed under his direction. At its first
concert on April 26, 1876, Jjach's Mass in B
minor, with additional accompaniments by
Mr. Goldschmidt, was jierformed for the first
time in England. The marked success of that
performance, and the subsequent jtrosperity of
the choir, are due in a large measure to the
earnestness and devotion of the first conductor.
(See Bach Choir.) Besides the choral works
already mentioned Mr. Goldschmidt has pub-
lished a Pianoforte Concerto ; a ditto Trio ;
Pianoforte Studies ; two duets for two pianos ;
pieces for clarinet
two songs, and part-songs ;
(or violin) and piano, are op. 26. In 1861 he
was elected Honorary Member of the Philharmonic
Society, in 1864 a Member of the
Swedish Royal Academy of Music, and in 1876
the King of Sweden conferred on him the
Royal Order of "Wasa ; in 1893 the medal
' litteris et artibus ' was conferred on him, to-
gether with the commandership of the order of
tlie Polar Star. Mr. Goldschmidt is an honorary
member of the Royal Academy of Music, a
vice-president of the Royal College of Organists
and of the Musical Association, and has Ijeen a
member of the Council of the Royal College of
Music since its foundation. Air interesting
biography appeared in the Musical Herald for
May 1896. A. D. c.
GOLDWIN, John, boru about 1670, was a
pupil of Dr. William Child, and was in the
choir of St. George's, Windsor, in 1690. On
April 12, 1697, he was appointed successor to
his master as organist of St. George's Chapel ;
in 1703 he became also master of the choristers.
He died Nov. 7, 1719. His Service in F is
printed in Arnold's Cathedral Music, and Boyce
and Page also printed some of his antliems ;
others remain in MS. in Tudway and at Ely
Cathedral, where he is entered as Golding. The
largest collection of his compositions, including
twenty-one anthems, motets, and services, is in
the Christ Church Library, O.xfoi'd. ' I have
set God alway before ' me is a very favourite
little anthem at cathedrals, melodious and
agreeable. w. H. H.
GOLINELLI, Stefaxo, born Oct. 26, 1818,
at Bologna, was taught pianoforte playing and
counterpoint by Benedetto Donelli, and composition
by "Vaccaj. He was professor at the Lieeo
of Bologna from 1840 to 1870, having been
appointed by Rossini while director. "To this
composer Golinelli dedicated his twenty-four
preludes for pianoforte, op. 23. He became
acquainted with Hiller while on a visit to
Bologna in 1 842, and dedicated to him his twelve
Studies, op. 15. He subsequently made a tour
throughout Italy, and acquired a reputation as