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Undeservedly forgotten, Karl Goepfart was irrefutable one of those great talents who, at the peak of late Romanticism, cultivated traditional musical culture and excelled as performers, teachers and specially composers, and even had their own style of diction. Though the zeitgeist of his operas, choral works and lieder in unlikely of revival, his sparse instrumental output is melodically and harmonically truly fascinating and well worth a renaissance. Most ingeniously shaped, while skillfully making the most of the interplay of sonorities, every movement is an experiences for the listener. His 'Trio for flute, oboe and piano in c minor, op.74' first appeared in 1898 from publisher Fritz Schuberth jr. in Leipzig. It sister work the 'Trio for clarinet, bassoon and piano, op.75' was published the same year by Sernau in Weimar. Beside these two works, both made accessible to musicans, Goepfart gave us 2 Character pieces for oboe and piano (op. 27) and for bassoon and piano (op. 31), a Ballade for horn and piano op. 48, a woodwind quartet in d moll op. 93, and the Trio op. 73 for 2 violins and viola. Karl Eduard Goepfart, son of the teacher and cantor Christian Heinrich Goepfart, was born on 8 March 1859 in Mönchenholzhausen near Erfurt. His father provided excellent early musical training. From 1873 on, he studied at the Grand Ducal Orchestra and Music School in Weimar. After a spell in the USA, which included appearances as a concert pianist and conductor in Baltimore, he resumed his studies in Weimar in 1876. From 1877 to 1880 he served in the military as a regimental musician. After 1880 he was active as a travelling choir conductor in Ulm, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Baden-Baden and Remscheid, always returning to Weimar in between. In 1885 he conducted the premiere of his fairy tale opera Beerenlieschen in Weimar. The musikdrama Quintin Messis, the Smith of Antwerp followed 1887 at the Weimar court theatre. He also composed mourning plays with choir and orchestra, Christmas plays and fairy tales, many a cappella choral works and festival plays with declamation, as well as marches. Active in Potsdam from 1909 to 1927, in old age he returned to Weimar, where he died on 30 January 1942.
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