Edward Gold

Edward Gold (b. 1936), is an American composer.

Gold was born in Brooklyn and grew up in New York City. He attended public schools and majored in music at CCNY (today part of the City University of New York). He received his masters from Yale University School of Music.

Early on, Edward's music was in the style of atonality (mostly Schoenberg), but with a traditional structural style using atonal and twelve-tone techniques crossed with some Stravinsky. But he largely turned away from these styles after leaving Yale. Over the course of his career, Gold's work has been both eclectic and independent. He composes most often for orchestra, piano, chamber ensemble or various vocalists with or without accompaniment. He is a member of the tonality-based Delian Society but also composes at times in a structurally-based atonal style.

Gold played a multi-city recital tour of Mexico in 1963 through the auspices of the US State Department (Information Service). His last major recitals (1994) were on the Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner. The occasion was a New Orleans-themed cruise; Gold played mostly music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, a native of New Orleans.

Several of his original works have been recorded by the vocalist David Warin Solomons. Gold has also sequenced music of Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Delius and, most notably, Elgar—including the famous "Enigma Variations," the two "Overtures," the two completed "Symphonies," and the "Violin Concerto."

External Websites

* [http://www.egoldmidincd.com Edward Gold's website]