Mikhail Emanuilovich Goldstein ( November 8, 1917 , Odessa - September 7, 1989 , Hamburg ) - Soviet , then German composer and violinist, teacher, author of musical hoaxes . Brother of violinist Boris Goldstein .
| Michael Goldstein | |
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| Full name | Mikhail Emanuilovich Goldstein |
| Date of Birth | November 8, 1917 |
| Place of Birth | Odessa |
| Date of death | September 7, 1989 (71 years old) |
| Place of death | Hamburg , Germany |
| A country |  the USSR  Germany |
| Professions | violinist , composer , music teacher |
| Instruments | violin |
| Genres | classical music |
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Biography
He studied in Odessa with Peter Stolyarsky , then at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Myaskovsky (composition), Abram Yampolsky (violin) and Konstantin Saradzhev (conducting).
Since 1948, he taught at various musical educational institutions in Moscow. Due to an injury to his left hand, he gradually switched mainly to composition, moreover, of a hoax character. Goldstein, in particular, composed Symphony No. 21 of the fictional Ukrainian composer Nikolai Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky, Viola Concerto with Ivan Khandoshkin’s Orchestra, Impromptu Miliya Balakireva and others. These compositions were performed and recorded by prominent Soviet musicians, some Soviet music critics tried on these works to make a career. In 1963, Goldstein immediately won three prizes at the All-Union Composers Competition for works for violin and cello [1] - the works were submitted to the competition under pseudonyms.
Goldstein’s composing activities attracted the negative attention of the USSR authorities; he was summoned several times for interrogation by the KGB . In 1964, he was allowed to emigrate from the USSR, and he left to teach in East Berlin , from where he then got the opportunity to move to Vienna (as if he wished to emigrate to Israel). After that, he settled in Hamburg , where since 1969 he taught at the Hamburg Higher School of Music . He also actively collaborated with the Ukrainian émigré press and wrote music articles for her under the pseudonym Mikhailo Mikhailov. In recent years, he lived in the town of Quickborn .
Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky Symphony
Goldstein's most famous hoax was Symphony No. 21 of Nikolai Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky [2] . According to Goldstein's memoirs [3] , conversations with Isaac Dunaevsky and theater expert Vsevolod Chagovets prompted him to compose this work. Composing a stylization to the music of the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, Goldstein attributed it to the landowner Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky, the grandfather of philologist Dmitry Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky , who held a fortress orchestra in Odessa and donated it to the opera house in 1810 .
The work of Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky, according to Goldstein, came in handy in the situation of the turn of the 1940s - 1950s, when Soviet cultural policy was aimed at confirming its own original sources. The symphony was performed by leading Soviet musical groups - in particular, it was recorded by the Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Mravinsky [4] . According to the urgent requirements of the musicologist Valerian Dovzhenko , who published an article about Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky and intended to write a book, Goldstein even came up with a composer with a slightly more detailed biography - in particular, the years of his life (1768-1846). An article about Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky was included in the second edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and in the Encyclopedic Dictionary [5] .
In 1959, the hoax was publicly exposed in the feuilleton of Jan Polishchuk in the Literary Newspaper [6] .
Sources
- ↑ Soviet Culture, January 12, 1963.
- ↑ Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky N. D. Symphony No. 21 (at the opening of the Odessa Theater in 1809). Score / Ed. A. G. Svechnikov. - M.-L .: State. muses Publishing House, 1951. - 79 p.
- ↑ M. Goldstein. Memoirs // “Deribasovskaya - Rishelievskaya”: literary, artistic, historical and local lore illustrated almanac. - Odessa, 2004. - Issue. 18. - S. 240-250.
- ↑ Works performed and recorded by E. A. Mravinsky (1932-1987) // Eugene Mravinsky Memorial Site
- ↑ Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky, Nikolai Dmitrievich // Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. B.A. Vvedensky. - M .: State Scientific Publishing House "Great Soviet Encyclopedia", 1953. - T. 2. - P. 535.
- ↑ Jan Polishchuk . Genius or villain // Literary Newspaper, January 5, 1959
Bibliography
- M. Goldstein. P.I. Tchaikovsky in Odessa. - Odessa, 1940.
- M. Goldstein. School named after Stolyarsky. - Odessa, 1947.
- I. Soroker . Євреї in museums of Ukraine. // Suchasnist, 2 (286) (lutium, 1995), p. 54-65.
- M. Goldstein. Notes of a musician. - Frankfurt, 1970.
- Musical fake. // Encyclopedic music dictionary. - M., 1966 .-- S. 331.