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On 2 January 1915, during the first winter of the First World War, the celebrated composer Carl Goldmark died in Vienna at the ripe old age of eighty-four. The Viennese press gave the story of his passing the kind of coverage that one would expect for a figure who was described as the “rector of Austrian music,” even its “epicenter.” The notice in the Neue Freie Presse was particularly striking in its imagery: “We, musical Vienna and the entire musical world, stand shaken around the funeral bier of the great composer and Austrian Carl Goldmark.” As the report goes on, the writer makes a clear reference to the growing war effort: “Many of our best and brightest must now die on the battlefield for the fatherland. Goldmark lived for his fatherland, and by creating art touched by the breadth of eternity, he honored the fatherland in his own way and greatly increased the cultural heritage of humanity.” Meanwhile, in the other great capital of the Dual Monarchy, the composer's death was covered very differently. To read the obituaries that appeared in Budapest is to be told that Hungary, not Austria, was Goldmark's fatherland. Here, in effect, both halves of the monarchy were fighting over the same man's legacy—the one, primarily on the basis of his Hungarian birth and childhood; the other, on the basis of his long residency in Austria and the central role he played in the musical culture of late Habsburg Vienna.
1 R[ichard] Batka, “Karl Goldmark,” Fremden-Blatt, 3 January 1915, 1–2, here 1. Specht, Richard, “Goldmark,” Der Merker 6 (1915): 64Google Scholar, respectively.
2 “Carl Goldmark,” Neue Freie Presse, 3 January 1915, 14–15, here 14.
3 “Karl Goldmark,” Pester Lloyd, 3 January 1915, 13.
4 “Goldmark Károly meghalt,” Budapesti Hírlap [Budapest daily], 3 January 1915, 16; and “Goldmark Károly meghalt,” Népszava [The people's voice], 3 January 1915, 7. Three obituaries by Gyula Fodor were exceptional in emphasizing the putative Jewish element in Goldmark's music. Yet Fodor goes on to assert that “if there is any relative of Jewish music it is Hungarian music.” Gyula Fodor, “Goldmark,” A Hét [The week] 26, no. 2 (10 January 1915): 18; Fodor, “Goldmark,” Egyenlőség [Equality] 34, no. 2 (10 January 1915): 13–14 (from which I have quoted); and Fodor, “Goldmark,” Zeneközlöny 13, no. 1 (15 March 1915): 2–4.
5 “Goldmark Károly meghalt,” Pesti Hírlap [Pest daily], 3 January 1915, 17.
6 “Karl Goldmark,” Pester Lloyd, 3 January 1915, 13; “Goldmark Károly meghalt,” Budapesti Hírlap, 3 January 1915, 16; “Goldmark Károly meghalt,” Pesti Hírlap, 3 January 1915, 17. On Eötvös and the monetary grant from the Hungarian government, more is to follow. There is no question that the inclusion of an excerpt from the opera in the benefit concert that Liszt gave in Vienna in January 1874 was a significant development. See Brodbeck, David, “A Tale of Two Brothers: Behind the Scenes of Goldmark's First Opera,” Musical Quarterly 97 (2014): 513–22CrossRefGoogle Scholar. I am aware of no hard evidence, however, regarding Andrássy's supposed role in ensuring the work's introduction at the Vienna Court Opera in March 1875.
7 “Goldmark Károly 1830–1914 [sic],” Pesti Napló [Pest news], 3 January 1915, 16.
8 “Das Begräbnis Goldmarks,” Pester Lloyd, 5 January 1915, 9.
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11 Goldmark acknowledged in his memoirs both his inability to speak Hungarian and the relatively late age at which he learned to read German. See Goldmark, Karl, Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben (Vienna, 1922), 84, 12Google Scholar. A useful but by no means infallible guide to Goldmark's early biography, the composer's memoirs are available in both English and Hungarian translations. See Goldmark, Carl, Notes from the Life of a Viennese Composer, trans. Goldmark, Alice Brandeis (New York, 1927)Google Scholar; and Károly, Goldmark, Emlékek Életemből, ed. Kecskeméti, István (Budapest, 1980)Google Scholar. When quoting from this source, I cite only the original German publication and provide my own translations. I consider Goldmark's life at some length in Brodbeck, David, Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna (New York, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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24 “Goldmark-Banket,” Pester Lloyd, 14 February 1895, 5, from which the following account is drawn.
25 August Beer, “Karl Goldmark,” Pester Lloyd, 14 February 1895, 5–6, from which the next two quotations are also taken.
26 “Cosmopolitanism” should not be equated here with Jewishness, since Beer uses the same term to describe the “international” artistic styles of Liszt and Mihály Munkácsy, Hungary's most celebrated painter, neither of whom were Jews.
27 On earlier uses of this dual trope of Orientalism and Hungarianness to describe Goldmark's style, both occurring in Viennese music criticism, see Brodbeck, Defining Deutschtum, 87–97, 215–16.
28 I take my description from the title of chapter 27 of Lendvai, The Hungarians.
29 On the Millenium Exhibition, see Sármány-Parsons, Ilona, “Ungarns Millenniumsjahr 1896,” in Der Kampf um das Gedächtnis. Öffentliche Gedenktage in Mitteleuropa, ed. Brix, Emil and Stekl, Hannes (Vienna, 1997), 273–91Google Scholar; and Freifeld, Alice, Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848–1914 (Washington, DC, 2000), 266–78Google Scholar.
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31 Prokopovych, In the Public Eye, 262–67.
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33 “A Filharmóniai Társulat ünnepe,” Vasárnapi Ujság, 10 May 1903, 309.
34 “Goldmark Károly. Zrinyi,” Zeneközlony 2 (4 May 1903): 195, and l.t., “Az országos zeneünnep,” Pesti Napló, 5 May 1903, 9, respectively, quoted in German translation in Párkai-Eckhardt, Maria, “Einflüsse der ungarischen Musik bei Goldmark,” in Brahms-Kongress Wien 1983, ed. Antonicek, Susanne and Biba, Otto (Tutzing, 1988), 427–38Google Scholar, here 436. Párkai-Eckhardt translates from Kálmán, Mária, Goldmark Károly 1830–1930. Adalékok életéhez és müveihez Magyar vonatkozásban (Budapest, 1930), 53Google Scholar.
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36 Goldmark might well have attended this performance; in any case, he would surely have read the notices and reviews in the Viennese press. See E. Bünde, [preview of Zrinyi], Allgemeine Kunst-Chronik 15 (15 September 1891): 553–54; Victor [sic], “Ein Freiheitssänger,” Welt-Blatt, 23 September 1891, 10; and E. J. M., “Zrinyi,” Das Vaterland, 25 September 1891, 1–2. On Zrínyi's reputation in the nineteenth century, see Luckscheiter, Roman, “Theodor Körners Zrinyi-Drama und die Fascination von Tod und Niederlage,” in Militia et Litterae: Die beiden Nikolaus Zrínyi und Europa, ed. Kühlmann, Wilhelm and Tüskés, Gábor, with Bene, Sándor (Tübingen, 2009), 274–84Google Scholar; and Kálmán Kovács, “Theodor Körners Zrínyi: Die Wiedergeburt des Nikolaus Zrínyi um 1800,” in Militia et Litterae: Die beiden Nikolaus Zrínyi und Europa, ed. Kühlmann and Tüskés, with Bene, 285–303.
37 See Lendvai, The Hungarians, 104.
38 Neubauer, John, “National Operas in East-Central Europe,” in History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctions in the 19th and 20th Centuries, vol. 1, ed. Cornis-Pope, Marcel and Neubauer, John (Amsterdam, 2004), 522Google Scholar.
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44 On the honorary membership, see “Die ‘Philharmonische Gesellschaft,’” Pester Lloyd, 15 November 1893, 14. For a complete listing of the works by Goldmark performed by the orchestra through 1903, see Isoz, Kálmán and Mészáros, Imre, A Filharmoniai Társaság multja és jelene, 1853–1903 (Budapest, 1903), 85Google Scholar.
45 The autograph score of the original version is housed in Budapest, National Széchényi Library (Sign. Ms. mus. 6.519). I take my spelling of the work as Zrinyi rather than the Hungarian Zrínyi from this source. The same library also holds a copy of the work that is largely written in a foreign hand but contains Goldmark's subsequent autograph revision of the ending for the Budapest performance in 1907.
46 Jonathan Bellman, The Style Hongrois in the Music of Western Europe (Boston, 1993); see also Locke, Ralph, Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections (Cambridge, 2009), 135–49Google Scholar.
47 For a succinct discussion of the contrasting ways in which Jewish identification processes and Habsburg loyalty played out in Cisleithania and Transleithania, see Rachamimov, Alon, “Collective Identifications and Austro-Hungarian Jews (1914–1918): The Contradictions and Travails of Avigdor Hameiri,” in The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy, ed. Cole, Laurence and L., Daniel Unowsky (New York, 2007), 180–84Google Scholar.
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51 I leave out of consideration here the pernicious coopting of the term during the Nazi era to stand for “race (blood) and territory (soil), a deadly combination that led to the exile and annihilation of anyone who did not ‘belong.’” Kaes, Anton, From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film (Cambridge, MA, 1989), 165–66Google Scholar.
52 Goldmark, Erinnerungen, 82–83. At the end of this passage, Goldmark is obviously repeating the sentiment he had expressed in Keszthely. Goldmark uses both the older spelling with the genitive and the plural form “Heimatsrechte” and “Heimatsgefühle” for “Heimatrecht” and “Heimatgefühle.”
53 The documents in question are Goldmark's last Viennese Meldzettel, filed on 31 December 1910, in which his “Heimats(Zuständigkeits)ort und -land” is given as Keszthely, Hungary (Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv, Bestand 2.5.1.4.K11. Goldmark Karl 18.5.1830), and a petition to the court filed on his behalf by a Hungarian attorney in 1890 to request the legitimization of his daughter Minna, born out of wedlock to his housekeeper in 1866, in which he is described as “zuständig nach Német Keresztur [sic].” Vienna, Haus-, Hof-, und Staatsarchiv, Z 21723/I.M. 1890 ad 3281. [1]890. I am grateful to Marsha Rozenblit and Thomas Aigner, respectively, for drawing my attention to these documents.
54 Karl Goldmark, “Gedanken über Form und Stil (Eine Abwehr),” Neue Freie Presse, 16 April 1911, 127–29, and 4 June 1911, 53–55. For a detailed discussion of this essay, see Brodbeck, Defining Deutschtum, 290–308; and Brodbeck, “‘Wollen wir doch nie vergessen, daß wir arme deutsche Komponisten sind’: Zu Goldmarks Selbstverteidigung,” in Carl Goldmark: Leben, Werk, Rezeption, ed. Peter Stachel (Vienna, in press).
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56 Unpublished letter of 31 May 1928, in the archive of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. I am grateful to Máté Mesterházi (Central Library of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest) for providing me with a copy of this letter.
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59 Kálmán's Hungarian citizenship is established by a record found in the Austrian State Archive (Archive of the Republic, Finance). This document (numbered 45955), signed and dated Vienna, 25 June 1938, concerns the Jewish composer's financial assets and was filed as required by the Nazi regime by a decree of 26 April 1938. See the finding of the Claims Resolution Tribunal of the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation (Swiss Banks), Case No. CV96–4849 at Claims Resolution Tribunal, accessed 30 November 2016, http://www.crt-ii.org/_awards/_apdfs/Kalman_Emmerich.pdf.
60 The remainder of the letter outlines the proposed terms of the purchase, in which the state was to share in payment to the family.
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63 The Goldmark Room no longer exists. It contents were transferred after World War II to the Helikon Library in Kezsthely, and in 1978 the materials were absorbed into the collection of the Széchényi National Library. See Kecskeméti, “Goldmarkiana,” 233.
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