August Göllerich (2 July 185916 March 1923) was an Austrian pianist, conductor, music educator and music writer. He studied the piano with

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...

, who made him also his secretary and companion on concert tours. Göllerich is known for studying the life and work of

Anton Bruckner Joseph Anton Bruckner (; ; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his Symphonies by Anton Bruckner, symphonies and sacred music, which includes List of masses by Anton Bruckner, Masses, Te Deum (Br ...

whose secretary and friend he was. He initiated and conducted concerts of Bruckner's music in

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, and wrote an influential biography.

Life

Born in

, the son of the

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town secretary and later member of the Reich Council and State Parliament and his wife Maria, née Nowotny, Göllerich grew up in middle-class circumstances. His father was a member of a liberal writers and literary association in Wels. Göllerich attended the Linz Realschule, which he completed with the

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. He studied mathematics at the

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, as his father wished. In 1882, he attended the

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. After his father's death in 1883, he devoted himself entirely to music, studying in Vienna the piano with Toni Raab, and composition with

. Raab introduced him to

in 1884, who accepted him as a piano student. He recognized Göllerich's literary and pianistic talent, and made him his secretary and travel companion, on concert tours to Germany, Italy and Russia. After Liszt's death in 1886, he worked as a music critic in Vienna. Göllerich became a secretary of Anton Bruckner. From 1890 until 1896, he was director of the Ramann-Volckmann'sche Musikschule, a music school in Nuremberg, together with his wife Gisela Pászthory-Voigt, also a pianist and student of Liszt. One of her children from an earlier marriage was

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. From 1896 until his death in 1923, Göllerich was director of the Linz Musikverein, which made him also the artistic director of the Musikverein concerts and choir master of the Schubertbund choir. He conducted the world premieres of many important works by Liszt and Bruckner in a series calles Bruckner Festkonzerte, making Linz a leading place for music. Authorized by Bruckner, he wrote a biography of the composer, covering not only his life but also a thorough analysis of his compositions. His work remained an influential biography of the composer, including views regarded later as problematic, such as "Musikant Gottes" (God's musician). Göllerich died in Linz. The

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holds his diaries, in which his memories of Liszt are recorded, and other materials, which are now in the

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in Vienna.

Publications

* ''Franz Liszt'' Berlin 1908 * ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffensbild''. 1936 * ''The piano master classes of Franz Liszt, 1884-1886 : diary notes of August Göllerich''.

* * Gisela Göllerich (ed.): ''In Memoriam August Göllerich''. Linz 1928 * Wilhelm Jerger: ''August Göllerichs Wirken für Franz Liszt in Linz.'' In the ''.'' 23, Eisenstadt 1961, issue 4, * Wilhelm Jerger: ''Vom Musikverein zum Bruckner-Konservatorium 1823-1963'', Linz 1963. * Wilhelm Jerger: ''August Göllerich, Schüler und Interpret von Franz Liszt.'' In the '. Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter.
/ref> Jahrgang 26, Linz 1972, issue 1/2, , * Wilhelm Jerger: ''Franz Liszts Klavierunterricht von 1884-1886, dargestellt an den Tagebuchaufzeichnungen von August Göllerich.'' Regensburg 1975 * Wilhelm Jerger: ''August Göllerich''. In

Friedrich Blume Friedrich Blume (5 January 1893, in Schlüchtern, Hesse-Nassau – 22 November 1975, in Schlüchtern) was professor of musicology at the University of Kiel from 1938 to 1958. He was a student in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig, and taught in the last ...

(ed.): ''

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''. First edition, volume 16, Kassel 1979, column 493 * Stefan

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: ''August Göllerich (1859-1923): Pianist, Dirigent, Musikpädagoge, Musikschriftsteller. Zum 150. Geburtstag einer Linzer Persönlichkeit von internationalem Rang.'' In: ''Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter.'' Jahrgang 63, Linz 2009,

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