Szymon Goldberg
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Szymon Goldberg (Conductor, Violin) was born – June 1, 1909 – Włocławek, Poland Died – July 19, 1993 – Ôyama-machi, Japan
The eminent Polish-born American violinist and conductor Szymon Goldberg played the violin as a child growing up in Warsaw. In 1917 he moved to Berlin and took violin lessons with the great Carl Flesch.
After a recital in Warsaw in 1921, he was soon engaged as concert-master of the Dresden Philharmonic from 1925 to 1929. In 1929 he was appointed concert-master of the famous Berlin Philharmonic, bur was forced to leave in 1934 despite Wilhelm Furtwängler's vigorous attempts to safe-guard the Jewish members of the orchestra. He then toured Europe. He made his American debut in New York in 1938. While on a tour of Asia, he was interned in Java by the Japanese from 1942 to 1945.
Eventually he went to the USA and became a naturalised American citizen in 1953. From 1951 to 1965 he taught at the Aspen Music School. Concurrently he was active as a conductor. In 1955 he founded the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in Amsterdam, which he led with notable distinction for 22 years. He also took the ensemble on many tours. From the years 1977 to 1979 he was the conductor of the Manchester Camerata.
He taught at the Yale University from 1978 to 1982, the Juilliard School in New York from 1978, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 1980, and the Manhattan School of Music in New York from 1981. From 1990 until his death he conducted the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo. [1]
