Gisela Selden-Goth

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Gisela Schlesinger 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. [5] Her writing and musical compositions were published under the name Gisela Selden-Goth.

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Biography

Selden-Goth was born in Budapest to Michael and Rosalia Schlesinger. [6] Her music teachers included Bela Bartok, Ferruccio Busoni, and Istvan Thoman. [4] [7] Her piano composition was one of 10 winners (out of 874 submissions) in the 1910 Signals for the Musical World competition in Germany. [8] She married Ernst Goth and they had a daughter, Trudy Goth, who became a dancer and journalist. [9]

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. [7] She also wrote books about Busoni and Arturo Toscanini and edited a collection of Felix Mendelssohn’s letters. [4] [10] 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.” [7] She also corresponded with composer Ernest Bloch and musicologist Hans Moldenhauer. [11]

Selden-Goth’s music is published today by Universal Edition. [4] Her prose works and musical compositions include:

Selected literary publications

Articles

Bibliography

Selected music works

Chamber music

Piano

Vocal music

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