Goldmark Rubin. Prairie idylls for the piano

New York: G. Schirmer, 1915. — 18 p.Rubin Goldmark (August 15, 1872 – March 6, 1936) was the outstanding personality among Antonín Dvorák’s American students. Today he is mainly remembered as the mentor of such significant composers as George Gershwin (1898-1937), the Italo-American genius Vittorio Giannini (1903-66), Aaron Copland (1900-90), Frederick Jacobi (1891-1952), or Alexei Haieff (1914-94). Stylistically a thoroughly conservative late-romantic composer, so to speak a ’brazen romantic” off the beaten track of the progressive tendencies of his time, after his death Rubin Goldmark’s name quickly fell into total oblivion in a climate of modernistic aesthetics. But his music strikes, beyond its obvious melodic charme and vitality, with rich invention, harmonical substance and complete mastery of large forms and orchestration. It is definitely worth to be rediscovered.
A Suite of four pieces: The First Anemone, The Meadow Lark, From the Old Mission, In Prairie-Dog Town
medium difficulty, intended for student of music universities