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Martha Svendsen

Date of death: Friday, 14 February 2014

Number of Readers: 364

Known asMartha Goldstein

SpecialtyAmerican harpsichordist and pianist

Date of birth10 June 1919

Date of death14 February 2014

Martha Goldstein (born Martha Svendsen; 1919–2014) was a harpsichordist and pianist, who gave concerts in the United States, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. She performed works by George Frideric Handel, Frédéric Chopin, Georg Philipp Telemann, Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, and others.
Training and career:
She was trained at the Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School and studied with Audrey Plitt, Eliza Woods, James Friskin and Mieczysław Munz. She taught at the Peabody Conservatory for 20 years and at the Cornish College of the Arts. She also performed as a guest artist with the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet, wind quintet-in-residence at the University of Washington School of Music since 1968.

Many of Goldstein's recordings were first released on LP by Pandora Records, which was founded in 1973 and active for more than ten years. The company went out of business with the advent of the CD. The entire archive of recordings is now available for download without restriction and can be found at many download sites, including Wikipedia (see Commons:Martha Goldstein). Often her recordings reflect historically informed performance, employing original period instruments and tunings.
Commercial recordings:
The Italian Harpsichord. Pandora Records, cat. no. PAN 101.
Bach: Flute sonatas. Complete and Authentic Works from the Neue Bach Gesellschaft. Alex Murray (Baroque flute); Martha Goldstein (harpsichord). Pandora Records (1974) cat. no. PAN 104.
Chopin: Études, Op. 10; Études, Op. 25. Pandora Records, cat. no. PAN 107.
Bach: Flute Sonatas. Incomplete and Controversial Sonatas. Alex Murray (Baroque flute); Martha Goldstein (harpsichord). Pandora Records, cat. no. PAN 105.
Bach / Martha Goldstein - The Sound of the Keyboard Lute. Pandora Records, cat. no. PAN 111.
Brahms: Waltzes. Pandora Records (1987), cat. no. PAN 119.
Bach: Music for Solo Traverso, Volume I. Alex Murray (Baroque flute); Martha Goldstein (harpsichord). Pandora Records, cat. no. PC 176.

Source: wikipedia.org

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