Szymon Goldberg publicity photo violin violinist

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For sale I have an original publicity photo of the violinist Szymon Goldberg.  The back is stamped "Received Examiner Reference Library Mar 14 1957."  8 x 10 inches.  Excellent condition.
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Szymon Goldberg
(1 June 1909 – 19 July 1993) was a Polish-born
Jewish
classical
violinist
and
conductor
, latterly an American.
Born in
Włocławek
,
Congress Poland
, Goldberg played the violin as a child growing up in
Warsaw
. His first teacher was Henryk Czaplinski, a pupil of the great Czech violinist
Otakar Ševčík
; his second was Mieczysław Michałowicz, a pupil of
Leopold Auer
.
[1]
In 1917, at age eight, Goldberg moved to
Berlin
to study the violin with the legendary pedagogue
Carl Flesch
. He was also a student of
Josef Wolfsthal
.
After a recital in Warsaw in 1921, and a debut with the
Berlin Philharmonic
in 1924 in which he played three concertos, he was engaged as concert-master of the
Dresden Philharmonic
from 1925 to 1929. In 1929 he was offered the position of concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic by its principal conductor,
Wilhelm Furtwängler
.
[2]
He accepted the position, serving from 1930 to 1934. During these years, he also performed in a string trio with
Paul Hindemith
on viola and
Emanuel Feuermann
on cello,
[3]
and also led a string quartet of Berlin Philharmonic members.
[4]
The rise of the
Third Reich
forced Goldberg to leave the orchestra in 1934, despite Furtwängler's attempts to safeguard the
Jewish
members of the orchestra. Thereafter, he toured Europe with the pianist
Lili Kraus
. He made his American debut in New York in 1938 at
Carnegie Hall
. While in the former Netherlands East Indies he formed the Goldberg Quartet, together with Robert Pikler on viola, Louis Mojzer on cello and Eugenie Emerson, piano. Pikler and MOJZER were Hungarians and Emerson was American. This Piano Quartet toured the major cities in Java, before the Japanese invasion and occupation. Goldberg's first wife was a skilled artist and sculptor. She was interned in the
Tjihapit Women's Camp
in Bandung, together with Mojzer's Family. While Goldberg and Kraus were on a tour of Asia, they and their families were interned in
Java
by the
Japanese
from 1942 to 1945.
He toured
Australia
for three months in 1946. Eventually he went to the
United States
and became a naturalised American citizen in 1953. From 1951 to 1965 he taught at the
Aspen Music School
. Concurrently he was active as a conductor. In 1955 he founded the
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
in
Amsterdam
, which he led until 1979. He also took the ensemble on many tours. From the years 1977 to 1979 he was the conductor of the
Manchester Camerata
.
He taught at
Yale University
from 1978 to 1982, the
Juilliard School
in
New York City
from 1978 to 1989 the
Curtis Institute of Music
in
Philadelphia
from 1980 to 1981, and the
Manhattan School of Music
in New York starting in 1981. From 1990 until his death, he conducted the
New Japan Philharmonic
in
Tokyo
.
[5]
His first wife died in the 1980s after a long illness.
[6]
In 1988, he married his second wife, Japanese pianist Miyoko Yamane (1938–2006), a former student of
Rudolf Serkin
and
Rudolf Kolisch
; they resided primarily in Philadelphia (with annual visits to Japan) until 1992, when they moved to
Toyama
, Japan.
[7]
[8]
He died in Toyama in 1993, aged 84.
He made a number of recordings, most notably a celebrated series of Mozart and Beethoven sonatas with Lili Kraus before World War II, the three Brahms Sonatas with Artur Balsam (Brunswick AXTL 1082), and Mozart and Schubert pieces with
Radu Lupu
(with whom he performed as a duo in concert) in the 1970s.
[9]
The Berlin Philharmonic, in a 2014 tribute to their former concertmaster, wrote that in the music of Bach and Mozart, Goldberg "brought a poise and a beauty of tone that seemed like perfection. Indeed he was the finest Mozart violinist of his time, with the feline grace essential for the violin sonatas, the concertos and the Sinfonia concertante."
[10]
He owned and played the "Baron Vitta"
Giuseppe Guarneri
(Guarneri del Gesù) violin; after his death his widow gave it to the
Library of Congress
.
[11]