Goldmark, Rubin (1872-1936)

US composer of Austro-Hungarian descent, nephew of Karoly Goldmark. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory and the National Conservatory in New York, where Antonín Dvořák was his composition master. He was director of the Colorado College Conservatory 1895-1901, but returned to New York in 1902 and settled as private piano and composition teacher, until, in 1924, he was appointed to the Juilliard Graduate School there.

Works Orchestral Hiawatha (after Longfellow, 1900), Samson (1914), Requiem (on Lincoln's address at Gettysburg), Negro Rhapsody, and The Call of the Plains for orchestra.

Chamber string quartet in A major; piano trio in D minor; violin and piano sonata.

Other violin pieces; piano music, songs; choruses.