Gisella Selden-Goth Explained

Gisella Selden-Goth (6 June 1884 – 5 September 1975)[1] was a Hungarian author, composer[2] and musicologist who became an American citizen in 1939.[3] She composed at least four string quartets[4] 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.[5] Her music teachers included Béla Bartók, Ferruccio Busoni, and István Thomán.[6] Her set of piano compositions, German: Vier Präludien, was one of 10 winners (out of 874 submissions) in the 1910 German: 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.[7]

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.[8] 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.[9]

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

Selected literary publications

Articles

Bibliography

Selected music works

Chamber music

Piano

Vocal music

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Works by Gisella Selden-Goth . 2024-07-27. Universal Edition.
  2. Book: Hixon. Donald L.. Hennessee. Don A.. Women in Music : An Encyclopedic Biobibliography. . 1993. Scarecrow Press. 0-8108-2769-7. 2nd. Metuchen, New Jersey. 28889156.
  3. Web site: Selden-Goth, Gisela, New York, U.S.. State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794–1943. 2022-10-18. subscription. ancestry.com.
  4. Book: Cohen, Aaron I. . International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 27 July 2024. registration. Internet Archive. 2. 1987. Books & Music (USA). 978-0-9617485-2-4. 632.
  5. Web site: Gisela Goth . 2022-10-18 . geni.com. 6 June 1884.
  6. Web site: Gisella Selden-Goth. 2024-07-27. casastefanzweig.org.br.
  7. News: 1974-05-14 . Trudy Goth Dies; Writer On Dance. The New York Times. 40. 2024-07-27. facsimile
  8. Book: Dyment, Christopher . Toscanini in Britain . 2012 . Boydell Press . 978-1-84383-789-3.
  9. Web site: Selden-Goth, Gisella, 1884–1975. Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC). 2022-10-18.
  10. Selden-Goth . Gisella . 1940 . A New Collection of Music Manuscripts in the United States. The Musical Quarterly. 26 . 2 . 175–185 . 10.1093/mq/XXVI.2.175 . 738845 . 0027-4631.
  11. Selden-Goth . Gisella . 1924 . Neue Wege der musikalischen Erziehung . 2022-10-18. Die Musik. 16.
  12. 1945-11-01 . Felix Mendelssohn: Letters, edited by G. Selden-Goth . 2022-10-18 . Commentary.
  13. Loesser . Arthur. Arthur Loesser. Summer 1964. Gisella Selden-Goth: Ferruccio Busoni. Notes. Second Series. 21 . 3 . 362–364. 10.2307/894499. 894499. 0027-4380.
  14. Wichtige neue Musikalien, Bücher und Aufsätze über Musik. Wilhelm Altmann. . 1920 . B. Schott's Söhne . de.

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