Fred Goldbeck (13 February 1902 – 3 October 1981 in Paris) was a French

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and

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of Dutch origin.

Biography

Born in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

, Fred Goldbeck moved to France in 1924. He met the pianist

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and became her companion before the Second World War. They got married in 1947. As a conductor, he was first of all a disciple of Mengelberg and

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. Thus he wrote an important first book: ''Le parfait chef d'orchestre''. Thereafter, he defended the works of contemporary composers such as

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and Britten, until

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and Xenakis. He also promoted Dutch musicians such as Alphons Diepenbrock, Matthijs Vermeulen and

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Writings

Monographs

* * * * , foreword by Rémy Stricker.

Articles

* , 24 p. * 107 p

Publisher

* , foreword by Henry Prunières

Correspondence

* * , translated by Jacques-Gabriel Prod'homme

References

External links

''Des compositeurs au XXè siècle''
on Book Node

on Library of Congress
Goldbeck, Fred (1902-1981)
on IdRef {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldbeck, Fred 1902 births 1981 deaths 20th-century French musicologists Dutch emigrants to France