Name Georg Goltermann | Role Composer | |
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Died December 29, 1898, Frankfurt, Germany Similar People David Popper, Julius Klengel, William Henry Squire, Jean‑Baptiste Breval, Bernhard Romberg | ||
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Georg Eduard Goltermann (19 August 1824 – 29 December 1898) was a German cellist and composer.
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Life
Goltermann was born in Hannover. His father was an organist, and therefore he got an early introduction to music. He received cello lessons from Joseph Menter in München and was noted there for his compositional talents.
In 1852, after briefly touring Europe as a solo cellist, he became music director in Würzburg. In 1853 he accepted an offer to become deputy music director of the municipal theater Stadttheater in Frankfurt am Main, where he was promoted to Kapellmeister (Main Director) in 1874. He died in the same city.
Works
Goltermann composed eight cello concertos, of which the fourth is the most famous. This "student's concerto" is the easiest of his first five concerti, and it is studied fairly widely. His music is rarely performed in professional concerts and is deemed to lack the musicality of true concertos. Instead his concertos are studied by students to learn technique and get a basic understanding of concerto style. Concerto No. 1 was the one most played professionally up to the early 1900s and again after World War I. The slow movement entitled Cantilena was often played separately as a cello solo. An early recording of this movement played by Pablo Casals exists.
Many of Goltermann's shorter works for cello were frequently in the repertoire up to the 1920s.