Richard Goode
Richard Stephen Goode (born June 1, 1943) is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven.
Richard Goode
- Born
- 1943. · The Bronx.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- classical pianist, university teacher, piano teacher and musician.
- Fields
- classical music.
- Education
- Curtis Institute of Music, Mannes College The New School for Music and McBurney School.
- Teachers
- Mieczysław Horszowski.
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Early life
Richard Goode studied at Curtis Institute of Music, Mannes College The New School for Music and McBurney School. Training under Mieczysław Horszowski is recorded. John Kamitsuka is recorded as having studied under Richard Goode. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Employment is recorded with The New School.
Goode was born in the East Bronx, New York. He studied piano with Elvira Szigeti, Claude Frank, and Nadia Reisenberg at Mannes College - The New School for Music (where he is a faculty member), and Rudolf Serkin and Mieczysław Horszowski at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Career
Career
He has made many recordings, including several Mozart piano concerti with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the music of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Bach. Goode was the first American-born pianist to record the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. He regularly appears at the world's leading venues. He premiered works written for him by Carlos Chávez, George Perle, Robert Helps, and others. His chamber-music partners included Dawn Upshaw, Richard Stoltzman and Alexander Schneider. From 1999 to 2013, Goode was the Artistic Co-Director of Marlboro Music School and Festival with Mitsuko Uchida. Goode is married to violinist Marcia Weinfeld. A literary portrait of Goode appears in David Blum's book Quintet: Five Journeys toward Musical Fulfillment (Cornell University Press, 1999). It originally appeared as an article in the 29 June 1992 issue of The New Yorker.
Recognition
Recognition
• Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance: • Richard Goode & Richard Stoltzman for Brahms: The Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano, Op. 120 (1983) • Recipient of Yale University's Sanford Medal. • Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1961 • First Prize in the Clara Haskil Competition in 1973 • Avery Fisher Prize in 1980.
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Richard Goode is recorded as classical pianist, university teacher, piano teacher and musician.
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1951
The corporation income tax Richard Goode. - 1951 [Leather Bound] (1951) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1951
The corporation income tax Richard Goode. - 1951 [Leather Bound] digitised by Internet Archive.
Discography
• Benita Valente, Richard Goode / Mozart • Schubert • Brahms • Hugo Wolf. - Benita Valente Sings Mozart Schubert Brahms Wolf (LP). Desmar, Telefunken. 1976 • Robert Schumann - Richard Goode - Humoreske, Op. 20 / Fantasia In C, Op. 17 Nonesuch. 1981 • Richard Stoltzman, Richard Goode - Brahms* - The Sonatas For Clarinet And Piano, Op. 120 RCA Red Seal. 1982 • Franz Schubert - Richard Goode - Sonata In A Major, D. 959 / Klavierstück In E Flat Minor, D. 946, No. 1 Nonesuch. 1985 • George Perle - Richard Goode, Music Today Ensemble, Gerard Schwarz - Serenade No. 3 For Piano And Chamber Orchestra / Ballade / Concertino For Piano, Winds And Timpani. Nonesuch. 1985 • Franz Schubert, Richard Goode - Schubert: Sonata In B-Flat Major, D. 960 Opus Posthumous • Allegretto D. 915 • Impromptu D. 935 No. 2 Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records. 1985 • Richard Goode / Johannes Brahms - Richard Goode Plays Brahms Elektra Nonesuch. 1987 • Beethoven, Late Sonatas, Opus 101, 106 (Hammerklavier), 109, 110, 111 (2xLP, Album) Nonesuch Digital. 1988 • Schumann, Kathleen Battle, John Aler, Charles Wadsworth, Richard Goode - Spanische Liebeslieder, Andante And Variations, Piano Quartet (CD) ASV Digital. 1988 • Richard Stoltzman / Richard Goode: Schumann* / Schubert* - Fantasiestücke, Op. 73, 3 Romances, Op. 94 / 2 Sonatinas, D. 384, 385 (Cass, CrO) RCA Victor Red Seal. 1988 • Richard Stoltzman, Richard Goode, Lucy Chapman Stoltzman* - Bartok - Contrasts; Stravinsky - L'Histoire Du Soldat - Suite; Ives - Largo; Songs (Cass, Album). RCA Victor Red Seal. 1990 • Franz Schubert - Richard Goode - Sonata In C Minor, D. 958 • Ländler, Op. 171, D. 790 Elektra Nonesuch. 1992 • Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos No. 18 & 20 (CD, Album) Nonesuch. 1996 • Chopin (CD, Album) Nonesuch. 1997 • Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos No. 25 & 9 Nonesuch. 1998 • Richard Goode / Johann Sebastian Bach - Bach Partitas Nos. 4, 2, And 5 Nonesuch. 1999 • Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos No. 23 & 24 (CD, Album) Nonesuch. 1999 • Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos (No. 27 In B-flat Major, K.595 / No. 19 In F Major K.459) (CD) Nonesuch. 2000 • Bach Partitas Nos. 1, 3 & 6 Nonesuch. 2003 • Mozart Nonesuch. 2005 • Beethoven, Richard Goode, Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra - The Five Piano Concertos (3xCD + Box) Nonesuch. 2009 • Mozart - Richard Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Piano Concertos (No. 17 In G, K.453 / No. 23 In A, K.488) (CD, Album) Nonesuch - 9 79042-2 • Beethoven, Richard Goode - The Complete Sonatas (10xCD + Box) Elektra Nonesuch, Book-Of-The-Month Records - 9 79328-2
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Richard Goode studied at Curtis Institute of Music, Mannes College The New School for Music and McBurney School. He trained under Mieczysław Horszowski. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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